Blog tagged 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.

Medical facilities would be required to store sharps, such as needles, syringes, scalpels and more, in a special box called a sharps container for up to 18-months or until the container is 75% filled under SB 482 , which passed unanimously with immediate effect.

More than 2.6 million Michiganders were enrolled in Medicaid in May 2024 after the year-long redetermination, which means the state added more than 400,000 people since before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and dropped 500,000 people since the end.

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?