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June 21, 2010
The Costs and Adequacy of Safety Net Access for the Uninsured: Genesee County (Flint), Michigan
CHRT provided information and analytical support for this case study, part of a larger project on Health Care Safety Nets led by Mark A. Hall of Wake Forest University with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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May 15, 2010
AnnArbor.com:
State backs Washtenaw County push for federally-qualified health center
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips comments on news that Gov. Granholm supports an exception for Washtenaw County to allow public health clinics to apply for status as a federally-qualified health center, despite difficulties in arguing the area is "medically underserved."
May 2, 2010
Crain's Detroit Business:
PPO creation, Medicare payment changes altered local health care
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips is quoted in an examination of the tremendous changes in Southeast Michigan's health care industry since 1985.
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April 19, 2010
Detroit Free Press:
Health reform: Policy we can build on
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips addresses the impact of the recently-enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
April 11, 2010
Crain's Detroit Business:
$600 million to fund research on best treatment methods
CHRT director Marianne Udow-Phillips highlights the potential for Michigan researchers to compete for new Federal funding for research to study the effectiveness of medical technology, treatments and diagnostic procedures.
June 21, 2010
Cover Michigan 2010
The State of Health Care Coverage in Michigan
New for 2010: Includes projected changes in coverage due to health reform (also available separately in the new CHRT Issue Brief, Impact of Health Reform on Coverage in Michigan)
Cover Michigan 2010 is CHRT's annual report of health care coverage in the U.S. and Michigan, including data on the uninsured, publicly and privately insured, premiums and cost-sharing, the health care safety net and, new for this year, health reform.
Cover Michigan 2010 presents the most recent comparative data available for the U.S. and Michigan: 2008 data for the U.S. and 2007/2008 two-year pooled data for Michigan. Michigan data are pooled to ensure an adequate sample size; some demographic data are reported as three-year pooled averages. Where possible, more recent data are included.
The Cover Michigan 2010 report and the Cover Michigan Survey 2010 (released in March 2010) both reveal continued upward trends in areas of concern from our 2009 report: more people lacking insurance, more employers dropping coverage, higher costs for those who have insurance, and a growing strain on the health care safety net.
June 21, 2010
Impact of Health Reform on Coverage in Michigan
CHRT Issue Brief June 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or the Act) will affect the picture of coverage in Michigan in many different ways.
While it is relatively easy to project the impact of some components of the Act (e.g., the number who will be eligible for Medicaid after 2014), it is more difficult to project many other elements (e.g., how many of the eligible will actually enroll in Medicaid). In this brief, we try to give a picture of the impact of the PPACA, had it been fully implemented and in effect in 2007/20081 (the period for which we have the most recent, comprehensive data on health coverage in the state).
It is important to understand that the regulations for most of the provisions of the Act have yet to be written, and Michigan, like other states, will have choices to make about the way various components of the Act are implemented. We made a number of assumptions about those choices to derive the estimates presented here. These estimates are intended to be illustrative of what could happen under the PPACA, and give some dimension to the scope of coverage in the Act and impacts on the most affected groups.
May 24, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the State and Local Level
CHRT Policy Brief June 2010
While health care reform has its foundation and framework at the federal level, many key elements will be carried out at the state and local level. Rather than addressing changes that apply to private sector health insurance, this policy brief summarizes some of the most salient state requirements and state and local opportunities with regard to coverage and health care delivery.
March 8, 2010
Cover Michigan Survey 2010
In The Media
Lansing State Journal 03/08/2010
AnnArbor.com 03/08/2010
Crain's Detroit Business 03/07/2010
In January of 2009, CHRT released the first edition of Cover Michigan, a report designed to provide a comprehensive picture of health care coverage in the U.S. and Michigan. In August 2009, to better understand the impact of coverage trends on the people behind the statistics, CHRT commissioned a survey of 1,022 Michigan adults about their sources of coverage, perceived health status, ability to pay for insurance and care, and decisions about seeking—or not seeking—needed health care services.
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