What to do about “Lemon Drops”
The White House is saying that we will have health reform enacted by next Sunday. While health reform is the term often used to describe the House and Senate passed bills, in fact a large part of what is called health reform is really focused on health insurance reform. And, a big piece of that reform is designed to deal …
Read more >Lansing State Journal: Health care survey: Advocates say results show need for reform
Report on CHRT’s Cover Michigan Survey 2010.
Read more >The Ann Arbor News: Health care coverage doesn’t guarantee access, Ann Arbor research center finds
Report on CHRT’s Cover Michigan Survey 2010.
Read more >Health Reform and Access to Care
Today we are releasing a survey of Michigan citizens’ views[CHRTS CM SURVEY 2010] on access to health care. The findings from this survey paint a picture that differs from some conventional wisdom and adds a different dimension to the debate on health reform in Washington. In particular, the survey makes it clear that having health insurance is important but no …
Read more >Survey Reveals Health Insurance and Access to Care Not So Closely Linked
A survey released today by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) challenges the long-held assumption that having health insurance is synonymous with having access to health care. The survey of 1,022 Michigan adults showed that while 40 percent of those who lacked insurance delayed seeking needed care, so did 17 percent of those with health insurance — mostly …
Read more >Crain's Detroit Business: Rising costs have people with insurance delaying care – survey
Report on CHRT’s Cover Michigan Survey 2010.
Read more >“The Summit” and Bringing it Home
Much has already been written about President Obama’s Health Reform Summit and what we learned or didn’t learn (see in particular blog posts at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times). On the same evening as the Summit, I had an opportunity to participate on a health reform panel sponsored by the University of Michigan college Democrats with …
Read more >The More Things Change
The fact that presidents have been trying to get some form of universal, government supported health insurance for almost 100 years now has been well publicized. What is less known is why — with the exception of the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965 — almost all of their efforts have failed to produce substantive change. It’s instructive to …
Read more >The Limits of Guidelines
Jerome Groopman published a provocative and thoughtful essay In the February 11, 2010 New York Review of Books about the way one determines “quality health care.” Groopman’s focus is on clinical guidelines and just how prescriptive they can be. He makes a fundamental distinction between guidelines that can be applied in a standardized way (e.g., how to clean a catheter to …
Read more >The Status Quo? Think Again
The last time a major effort at health care reform was tried, it died an ignoble death. Bill and Hillary Clinton were certain that they had read the political signals correctly and that health care reform was a winning issue for them. Bill Clinton framed health care as an essential economic issue after he was elected and before he became …
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