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2009 Newsmaker of the Year Finalist: Beth Chappell

date: January 3, 2010
SOURCE: Crain's Detroit Business

Last month, Detroit Economic Club President and CEO Beth Chappell made good, delivering the output from The National Summit to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke in Washington, D.C.

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3 CEOs tout plan to save Michigan's economy

date: December 15, 2009
SOURCE: Detroit News

Brian J. O'Connor / Detroit News Finance Editor

Detroit -- Without fundamental changes to the state's budget and economic priorities, Michigan is headed for more pain and even bigger troubles, three of Michigan's leading business executives warned a Monday meeting of the Detroit Economic Club.

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CEOs: Immediate changes are needed to fix Michigan

date: December 14, 2009
SOURCE: Associated Press

The CEOs of three prominent Michigan-based companies say immediate, sweeping changes are needed to turn around the state's struggling economy.

John Rakolta of Walbridge Aldinger, Anthony Earley of DTE Energy and David Brandon of Domino's Pizza spoke Monday at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club.

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Michigan business leaders: State needs overhaul

date: December 14, 2009
SOURCE: Detroit Free Press

Michigan business leaders have had enough.

Three leading chief executives told the Detroit Economic Club today that Michigan needs a top-to-bottom overhaul if it ever hopes to rank as a top 10 state economically.

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U. Mich. institute accepting embryos for research

date: December 8, 2009
SOURCE: Associated Press

DETROIT - A leading researcher and director of the University of Michigan's A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute says the university now can accept private donations of unused human embryos for creating new stem cell lines.

Dr. Eva Feldman spoke to the Detroit Economic Club Tuesday at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.

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Economic Club to take National Summit’s ‘To-Do List’ to Washington

date: December 8, 2009
SOURCE: Crain's Detroit Business

By Nancy Kaffer

Detroit Economic Club President and CEO Beth Chappell, Ford Motor Co.
Executive Chairman Bill Ford and Thomas Dekar, principal and vice chairman of
Deloitte L.L.P., will present “America’s To-Do List” to U.S. Commerce Secretary
Gary Locke in Washington D.C. on Monday, Chappell told the crowd Tuesday at an Economic Club luncheon.

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Ignagni: Lack of cost containment fatal flaw in health reform bills

date: December 3, 2009
SOURCE: Crain's Detroit Business

By Jay Greene

Karen Ignagni, CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, the health insurance industry's Washington, D.C.-based trade association, said Thursday at a Detroit Economic Club luncheon that enacting a bad health care reform bill would be worse than doing nothing.

Speaking in front of 300 people at the Westin Book Cadillac, Ignagni said the two bills in Congress to reform the health care system are seriously flawed because they lack provisions that would immediately contain rising health care costs.

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US health insurers push back as debate heats up

date: December 3, 2009
SOURCE: Reuters

By Bernie Woodall and Susan Heavey

DETROIT/WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The health insurance industry on Thursday struck back at provisions in Congress' healthcare proposals that it said would do little to curb the nation's spiraling costs or provide people more affordable coverage.

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Official: Health care reform must curb costs

date: December 3, 2009
SOURCE: Detroit Free Press

By PATRICIA ANSTETT
FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER

Americans can expect less from their health coverage, not more, if Congress doesn’t add meaningful cost controls to pending federal health reforms, one of the nation’s most powerful health care officials told the Detroit Economic Club today.

“If reform fails to address the unsustainable cost drivers in health care, we may be laying the groundwork for the nation’s next crisis — one that will impact every American,” said Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, speaking at Detroit’s Westin Book Cadillac Hotel.

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Stabenow opposes employer mandate in federal health reform package

date: November 16, 2009
SOURCE: Crain's Detroit Business

By Jay Greene

U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said today at a Detroit Economic Club breakfast meeting that she opposes an employer mandate that could be a key component in a final health care reform bill.

Instead of an employer mandate that the U.S. House recently approved as part of its package, Stabenow told an audience of about 200 at the Southfield Westin that the Senate bill would require companies with 50 or more employees to pay a “fee” to help subsidize their workers' mandated health insurance coverage.

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