A Success Story: Expanding Health Care Options For Detroit's Poor-The KHN Interview

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In this video, KHN reporter Jenny Gold interviews Dr. Herbert Smitherman about the Voices of Detroit Initiative that tracked 33,000 uninsured people and helped get more than half of them into coordinated care systems.

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<h1>A Success Story: Expanding Health Care Options For Detroit’s Poor-The KHN Interview</h1>
<div>		<time class="posted-on" datetime="2011-05-12T09:49:00-04:00">
			May 12, 2011		</time>
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