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Consumer-driven health care: Michigan leads a long-overdue approach

December 27, 2007 – 3:49 pm

A new website from the Michigan Health and Hospital Association now provides Michigan residents with information on costs, payment options, and quality of care at Michigan’s 146 nonprofit community hospitals. According to this write-up in the Great Lakes IT Report, the site provides specific information on the average charge, average payment, average length of stay [...]

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Mozambique, Jack Lessenberry, GOP cuts, and the budget crisis

May 16, 2007 – 11:26 am

So it’s been a while since my last post, and I guess I’m coming out swinging for the fences.
Today, PRI’s program The World program featured a story on American philanthropist Greg Carr, who’s spending $40 million to promote eco-tourism in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park. In explaining how he’s been able to convince locals in this [...]

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A 7-Point Plan for Michigan’s Future

June 12, 2006 – 11:25 am

On Monday, June 12, we held press conferences in Elmwood Township and Scottville announcing our 7-point to Fight for Michigan’s Future. Twenty other press conferences were held across the state as part of our coordinated campaign to retake the State Legislature.
While we have many issues that we will highlight over the course of the campaign, [...]

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Putting real reform over partisan posturing

March 31, 2006 – 11:50 am

As I’ve blogged here and here, Michigan’s Single Business Tax needs an overhaul, an idea that is supported by legislators on both sides of the aisle. This potential bi-partisan consensus makes today’s move by the State House to politics first all the more distressing. This could have been a bi-partisan solution to our state’s business [...]

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