U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Affordable Care Act, Michigan exchanges...
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of one of the central parts of the Affordable Care Act, keeping the law in place in states throughout the country. Their decision comes three years after the...
View ArticleThe Obamacare decision
There must be Republican strategists who are secretly relieved and happy that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the subsidies that help millions buy health insurance. Had they ruled the other way, not only...
View ArticleIt's almost time for Michigan to start sharing Medicaid expansion costs
Gov. Rick Snyder’s new budget contains over $100 million for Healthy Michigan. That’s a reminder that it’s time for the state of Michigan to pony up some of the Medicaid expansion program’s operation...
View ArticleGood news on health care
Most religions have some basic creed all members are supposed to profess. Many political parties do as well. I’m not sure what that would be for Democrats these days. But for today’s Republicans, one...
View ArticleInsurers asking for average 17% rate increases for individual plans
Rates could be going up next year for people who buy health insurance on Michigan's public exchange. More than a dozen companies have submitted requests for rate changes to the Michigan Department of...
View ArticleWhy health insurance companies are pushing for 17% rate increase next year
The insurance companies offering health plans on Michigan's public exchange have a collective eye fixed on January 1, 2017. That's when they hope they'll be able to start charging, on average, 17.2%...
View ArticleMichigan doctors not overwhelmed by Affordable Care Act, study shows
The Healthy Michigan Plan launched in April 2014. It opened the Medicaid rolls to hundreds of thousands of low-income people for the first time. And no one was quite sure what to expect. There were...
View ArticleMichigan hospitals profiting from drop in uninsured patients
It's been more than two years since the Healthy Michigan Plan opened the Medicaid rolls to over 600,000 low-income Michiganders. What has this meant for the financial health of Michigan's hospitals...
View ArticleWhat do Affordable Care Act premium increases mean for Michigan?
Word came from the federal government this week: premiums for popular health plans sold on healthcare.gov are going up an average of 25% next year. And, depending on where you live, you may have fewer...
View ArticleObamacare signup set to begin in Michigan on Tuesday
Tuesday, Michiganders will start signing up for health insurance coverage under the next round of Obamacare. Many will find fewer choices and more expensive policies to choose from. Nearly 400,000...
View ArticleStudy: Many Michiganders would be uninsurable without Affordable Care Act
A new study says nearly 1.7 million people in Michigan were uninsurable before the Affordable Care Act. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit that publishes non-partisan medical information,...
View ArticleProtestors urge Republican Congressman not to repeal the Affordable Care Act
About 40 protestors rallied outside Republican Congressman David Trott's office in Troy Tuesday, holding signs that read "Don't Take My Medicare or Medicaid." The protestors urged Trott to think twice...
View ArticleMichigan doctors and patients urge Congress to keep the Affordable Care Act
In the days leading up to president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Michigan doctors and parents are speaking out against one of his biggest promises. Trump and many Republicans in Congress are...
View ArticleMichigan Democrats girding to defend Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act is shaping up to be one of the first big battles of the new congressional session. Republicans have promised to repeal it. Democrats are girded to defend it. And there’s a lot...
View ArticleStabenow: Republican efforts to repeal ACA without replacement are...
Republicans in Congress are working quickly to set the stage for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act , also called Obamacare. The Senate’s Republican majority took the lead in the effort. At this...
View ArticleSanders and Democrats rally against repealing Obamacare in Warren
Thousands of Michigan residents showed up to a healthcare rally to show Republican leaders they don’t want the Affordable Care Act to be repealed. Senator Bernie Sanders, along Democrats with Gary...
View ArticleFamily says Obamacare meant choosing between "bad, really bad and really bad...
All this week on Stateside , we look at how the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will affect Michigan residents, hospitals and governments. The future of the Affordable Care...
View ArticleSen. Peters: The ACA is not perfect, but everyone deserves quality,...
Thousands showed up at a rally in Warren on Sunday where Democratic Presidential Candidate and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York and...
View ArticleUnder Affordable Care Act repeal, Michigan family "would probably go bankrupt"
All this week on Stateside, we look at how the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will affect Michigan residents, hospitals and governments. According to the Health and Human...
View ArticleWhat repealing the Affordable Care Act could mean for Michigan hospitals
All this week on Stateside, we look at how the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will affect Michigan residents, hospitals and governments. There are hundreds of hospitals in...
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