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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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