Blog categorized as Health Care

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.

Bystanders who attempt to help stop another Michiganders’ bleeding wounds would no longer be held liable, under a three-bill package introduced in the House last week.

Remember Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s $5,000 caregiver tax credit idea she brought up in her State of the State address and during her budget presentation?

An Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention would be established within the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to help veterans navigate behavioral health challenges like Rep. William Bruck (R-Erie) described in testimony under HB 5276.

Doctors would be required to upload death certificates electronically, under legislation taken up in a House committee Thursday, something funeral director Sarah Jensen Vatter said would address issues that arise from forcing religious families to wait on burial plans.