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Obama appointments suggest health policy direction

ShareTweet Since Barack Obama’s election as the 44th President there are early signs of what direction the new administration and Congress will pursue in reforming the American health care system. The early signs come from the people that Team Obama has tapped for leadership posts and actions in Congress that will push the new administration toward health care reform.
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Expanding Medicaid: Less costly covering more low-income uninsured than expanding private insurance

Average medical expenditures per person are lower under public programs such as Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) than under private insurance, according to new research published by Health Affairs. The new research, by Leighton Ku of George Washington University and Matthew Broaddus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, is consistent with previous work by researchers at the Urban Institute, according to the Center on budget and Policy Priorities.

Patient-centered medical homes offer quality option for health care

ShareTweet For years, we have read and heard about emergency room overcrowding and the non-emergent use of emergency departments by the uninsured and underinsured with nowhere else to go.
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Bush Administration Medicaid regulations could hurt state

ShareTweet The Bush Administration has proposed sweeping new Medicaid regulations that will shift costs for this federal state program on to Michigan. The proposed regulations will cost the Michigan Medicaid program $3.9 billion. A cut of this magnitude would severely cripple Medicaid and would balloon a budget deficit already predicted to be $472 million.
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Obesity Summit News Release

Obesity Task Force Hosts National Expert on Childhood Obesity
DETROIT - Adam Becker, PhD, MPH, Executive Director, Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC), will be the presiding speaker for the “Childhood Obesity Planning Summit,” scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 1, 9 a.m. to noon, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s Detroit Tower, 600 East Lafayette, Detroit. Free parking will be provided in the Blue Cross parking structure.