Blog categorized as Health Care

One night in September 2021, Kathy McCarthy fell asleep peacefully, thinking her children were safe under her roof. The next morning, she discovered her 19-year-old son's body, "beyond life-saving measures" following a fentanyl overdose.

Hospitals would need to stock up on IUDs – or T-shaped birth control that's inserted into the uterus – to offer to women immediately after they give birth, under legislation considered Thursday by the Senate Health Policy Committee.

Sen. Joseph Bellino Jr. (R-Monroe) said he is “doing great” two weeks following a kidney transplant to his brother-in-law. Bellino donated his kidney to Chuck Piotrowski after he posted he needed a donor on their family Facebook page last December.

This week, Sens. Mary Cavanagh (D-Redford Twp.) and Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) introduced the “Freedom to Plan Act,” a bill package that would require both Medicaid and private insurers to provide coverage for oral hormonal and emergency contraception - with or without a prescription.

A new lawsuit filed Thursday challenges Michigan’s ban on Medicaid-funded abortions, arguing the law violates the constitutional right to reproductive freedom that voters enshrined in the Constitution in November 2022.