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Detroit Free Press: Court rulings leave millions in health care tax credits in jeopardy

“I think it’s important to understand that this isn’t the last word,” CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips tells the Detroit Free Press following a pair of contradictory court decisions that jeopardize millions of dollars in tax credits for nearly a quarter-million Michiganders.

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The Detroit News: Health law rulings may affect Mich. subsidies

Dueling court decisions on whether people who buy insurance through federally facilitated marketplaces can receive federal health insurance subsidies “emphasize how controversial this law continues to be even in the court system,” CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips tells The Detroit News.

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The Detroit News: Obamacare’s future less dire than touted

CHRT Health Policy Analyst Josh Fangmeier breaks down how an economist’s grim predictions for significant premium increases and plateaued (or even increased) uninsured populations under the Affordable Care Act does not match current data—both nationally and in Michigan.

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Health News Florida: FL in Last Place for ACA Grants

Health News Florida talks with CHRT Health Policy Analyst Josh Fangmeier about his analysis of Affordable Care Act grant totals, which places Florida 51st in the country in per capita funding received between March 2010 and the end of September 2013.

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Detroit Free Press: We must save lives by stopping this silent killer (guest column)

In this guest column, CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips and Dr. Theodore Iwashyna, a 2013 CHRT Policy Fellow, call on Michigan to become a leader in preventing severe sepsis, an overwhelming infection that causes more deaths than prostate cancer and breast cancer combined.

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HealthLeaders Media: Beaumont Health Clears Key Hurdles in Latest Merger Try

In this examination of Beaumont Health System, Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare’s announcement that they will combine their operations,  CHRT Director Marianne Udow-Phillips talks extensively with HealthLeaders Media on the likelihood this deal is closed, what led to the collapse of the Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont merger, and how the new organization

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