GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Healthy Michigan is a plan that expands Medicaid in the state. It has grown in the four years of implementation, and at least one lawmaker would like to see some changes made.
It was a heavy lift for Gov. Rick Snyder to get some of his Republican colleagues to go along with the Medicaid expansion, but he ultimately prevailed. Now some members would like to see some adjustments to low-income insurance plan.
Sen. Mike Shirkey was one of those Republicans who opposed expanding Medicaid. He says after listening to the proposal, he decided it was a good fit to get health services for low-income residents in the state at a time when jobs were scarce and unemployment was setting records.
Now that the economic picture has changed dramatically, he wants the more than 670,000 people using Healthy Michigan to spend time each week working on their careers. Healthy Michigan covers people with household incomes of 133 percent of the poverty level or less.
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