Media Inquiries:
Karen Stock, Communications Director
(734) 998-7555 or stockka@umich.edu

CHRT Press Releases

June 21, 2010

Cover Michigan 2010 Finds Health Safety Net Still Critical Despite Health Reform

Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation report shows challenges in access and cost; presents a picture of health coverage under reform

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Related CHRT Publication:
Cover Michigan »

May 24, 2010

CHRT Policy Brief Demystifies National Health Care Act; Shows Choices, Opportunities at State, Local Levels

States have choices in shaping future of health care

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Related CHRT Publication:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the State and Local Level »

March 8, 2010

Survey Reveals Health Insurance and Access to Care Not So Closely Linked

Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation survey reveals changing landscape of coverage in Michigan

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Related CHRT Publication:
Cover Michigan Survey 2010 »

January 25, 2010

The Cost Burden of Disease: What Health Care Spending Can Teach Us About Improving Care

Some of the most common — and most expensive — reasons for hospitalizations may be at least partially preventable

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Related CHRT Publication:
The Cost Burden of Disease: U.S. and Michigan »

December 14, 2009

Michigan’s health care spending lower than U.S. average – Medicaid reimbursements among the lowest in the nation

Issue brief shows Michigan’s spending on health care growing more slowly than national average

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Related CHRT Publication:
Health Care Spending by Country, State and Payer »

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In The Media

June 21, 2010

Crain's Detroit Business:

Report: Health care reform will cut uninsured in Michigan from 11 percent to 1.5 percent

Report on the release of CHRT's Cover Michigan 2010.

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Related CHRT Publication:
Cover Michigan »

June 20, 2010

Detroit News:

Study: Reform likely to help Michigan health insurance

Report on the release of CHRT's Cover Michigan 2010.

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Related CHRT Publication:
Cover Michigan »

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."

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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.

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