Detroit Free Press: Michigan gets ahead of curve on health costs
Report on CHRT’s December 2009 issue brief “Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer.”
Read more >The Detroit News: Michigan health care spending below U.S. average
Report on CHRT’s December 2009 issue brief “Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer.”
Read more >Is concentrated power a good or bad thing when it comes to health care plans?
During the debate about health care reform, there has been much discussion about the need for a public option. The advocates for that option talk about the need to assure real competition in health care. About the public option, Robert Reich said, “…without a public option, the other parties that comprise America’s non-system of health care — private insurers, doctors, …
Read more >The devil is the detail
Health reform is exciting and both the House and Senate bills have elements that could greatly improve the way care is delivered for millions of people. But, with all those great things, you have to know that there are lots of things in those more than 1,900 pages of the House bill and more than 2,000 in the Senate bill …
Read more >What’s a person to do?
“Breast-screening advice is Upended” (Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2009) For years, we have been told that we should have a mammogram every year after age 40 and in 2002, this advice was repeated by the same folks who now are recommending that most women can wait until 50 for routine mammograms. Does it make anyone think about the margarine …
Read more >Health reform gone too far?
I was having a debate the other day about whether the health reform bill going through Congress was a good or bad thing and whether it went too far or not far enough. This dialog is occurring with my friends and colleagues who are strong European model supporters – let’s put all docs on capitation/salary – and my friends who …
Read more >Help for Michigan’s Health Care Safety Net
For many who struggle with health care costs or lack of insurance, free clinics and other health care “safety net” organizations provide services that are truly life-saving. In partnership with the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a team of University of Michigan (U-M) researchers is looking for ways to help Michigan’s safety net providers meet the challenges of caring …
Read more >Detroit Free Press: Make health care costs part of economic cure
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips’ op-ed.
Read more >Industry Today: Here’s to Your Health: Healthcare expert Marianne Udow-Phillips discusses the politics and policy of health reform, circa 2009
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips’ comments on the challenging debate over health reform in the U.S.
Read more >WGTE Public Media: Deadline Now: Health Care Reform
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips is featured along with Dr. Jeffrey Gold, Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Toledo, in a discussion of health reform on the July 31, 2009 edition of “Deadline Now” on Toledo’s WGTE public media.
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