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Spotlight
December 4, 2009
Health Care Collaboration Saves
In this opinion piece, CHRT board member Tom Simmer, M.D., describes the success of BCBSM's collaboration with UMHS and 33 other hospitals around the state to improve surgical quality. CHRT board member Skip Campbell, M.D., is the initiative's program lead.
December 4, 2009
Experts Expose Health Reform Gaps for Ethnic Elders
CHRT board member Carmen Green was a featured speaker at the recent Gerontological Society of America's 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
CHRT Press Release
November 3, 2009
Help for Michigan's Health Care Safety Net
U-M study will help safety net providers cope with growing need
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October 15, 2009
Forum on Health Care Reform: Proposals, Politics, and Prospects
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips was an expert panelist in a campus wide forum on health care reform co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Public Health and the FORUM on Health Policy.
September 15, 2009
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.
January 25, 2010
The Cost Burden of Disease: U.S. and Michigan
CHRT Issue Brief January 2010
There may be no broad consensus on the impact of recent health reform proposals on the growth of health care costs in the U.S., but few would dispute that rising health care costs are a threat to the U.S. economy, the health system, and the health and financial well-being of families and individuals in the United States. As we collectively seek ways to address the crisis of rising costs—as part of overall health reform or through regional, state, or local approaches—we must understand the factors that drive health care costs and where opportunities exist to affect those drivers.
December 14, 2009
Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer
In The Media
AnnArbor.com 12/16/2009
Detroit Free Press 12/14/2009
Crain's Detroit Business 12/14/2009
Detroit News 12/14/2009
CHRT Issue Brief December 2009
Experts on all sides of the health reform debate agree that the current rate of growth in health care spending is unsustainable and ultimately damaging to the economy and the health system alike. Patients experience this stress in a more personal way, through rising out-of-pocket costs or by struggling to get the care they need. Most agree that measures to control health care costs are essential to health reform if we are to have a financially sustainable health care system. There is less agreement, however, on how to accomplish this while maintaining—not to speak of improving—quality, access, and consumer satisfaction.
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