Obamacare is already changing the healthcare landscape in Michigan. Major efforts are underway to make the system more effective and efficient, though we don’t yet know if they will work.
Marianne Udow-Phillips
Marianne Udow-Phillips is the founding executive director of the Center for Health research Transformation at the University of Michigan. Prior, she served as the director of Michigan’s Department of Human Services.
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Surgery, therapy effective against obesity; more should get both
Michigan is one of the fattest states in the nation. If we are truly going to tackle obesity and reduce related human suffering and healthcare costs, shouldn’t we focus on things we know work (intensive behavioral therapy and bariatric surgery) and make them widely available to the people who need help most?
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Michigan residents need better access to mental health care
Marianne Udow-Phillips is the director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a nonpartisan health policy center based at the University of Michigan with a mission to promote evidence-based care delivery, improve population health and expand access to care. Soon, many hundreds of thousands of Michigan citizens will be obtaining mental health coverage through […]
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A crucial ingredient as one young Michigan resident signed up for Obamacare
Marianne Udow-Phillips is the director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a nonpartisan health policy center based at the University of Michigan with a mission to promote evidence-based care delivery, improve population health and expand access to care. Like everyone I know who is a health policy junkie, I have been very excited […]
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The importance of federally qualified health centers and the Affordable Care Act
Marianne Udow-Phillips is the director of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, a nonpartisan health policy center based at the University of Michigan with a mission to promote evidence-based care delivery, improve population health and expand access to care. About six months after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, our Center […]
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Obamacare seems to be helping to curtail health costs
CHRT graphic. CLICK TO ENLARGE In recent months, a conversation has burgeoned in health and public policy forums about the slowdown in the growth of health-care spending. We are all asking the same questions: Is this slowdown real? Are some of the past cost containment efforts and recent provisions in the federal Affordable Care […]
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Just get it done on Medicaid expansion
EMERGENCY ACTION: Legislators need to act quickly on Gov. Rick Snyder’s agenda to expand the Medicaid health program, argues Marianne Udow-Phillips of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation. On Feb. 6, Gov. Rick Snyder announced his support for expanding Medicaid as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act. In his announcement, he talked about how […]
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Oregon Medicaid study shows value of investment in mental health
CELEBRATE MENTAL HEALTH: Little of the coverage of the Oregon Medicaid study has noted the huge improvements in mental health for the insured vs. the uninsured, notes Marianne Udow-Phillips of the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation. (courtesy photo/used under Creative Commons license) Recent reports about a Medicaid experiment in Oregon reveal a major disconnect […]
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