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Michigan will eliminate Medicaid work requirements
Michigan will soon eliminate an inactive requirement that able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid must work. The bill removing that requirement was signed into law Jan. 21 by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after passing in the House and Senate in December along party lines,
Children, infants, rural communities and seniors are some of the groups Protect Our Care Michigan say will be negatively impacted by Medicaid funding cuts.
Some 900,000 Michigan residents on Medicaid could lose coverage if the decade-old expansion is reversed by the GOP-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump. The Democratic National Committee revealed estimated losses in 16 of 22 states that would be impacted by the elimination of the Medicaid expansion that took effect in April 2014 as part of the Affordable Care Act,
Introducing work requirements for Medicaid recipients is something the GOP has suggested will be brought into action.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Tuesday that she planned to take legal action in response to President Donald Trump’s administration instituting a freeze on federal grants that
Questions remained Tuesday about which programs would be covered by the federal funding pause announced Monday and which would not.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she will be filing litigation in the wake of a freeze on federal funds to programs active in Michigan.
In today’s edition … DNC defends Medicaid as Republicans consider cuts … 2026 Senate race in Michigan starts to take shape.
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On Monday, acting HHS Secretary Dorothy Fink signaled the agency is prepared to adopt a tougher stance on abortion under Kennedy. She ordered the agency to investigate all of its programs to make sure no taxpayer money is going toward elective abortions.