GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (via WOOD TV) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been traveling the state to talk about her policies and budget priorities since early March, which often includes a pitch to fix the roads and raise the gas tax by 45 cents a gallon.
But Whitmer had a different message on Wednesday when she visited Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Whitmer has made it no secret that she does not like the auto no-fault reform bills passed by the legislature.
“When your asthmatic child can't breathe, or when your father is having a heart attack, this is where you come,” Whitmer said. “If the legislation gets passed with the swiftness that it is and the thoughtlessness that it is, every one of us is going to pay for that.”
She says funding for medical cost expenditures are significantly reduced or eliminated in the packages, meaning trauma centers could be in danger of losing funding.
"Zero coverage means exactly that, zero coverage. It means undermining trauma centers like this, the last one going west in Michigan, that everyone on this side of the state depends on,” Whitmer said.
The two bills passed by the legislature to reform no-fault would offer coverage levels much lower than the unlimited payout for catastrophic care that’s currently mandated.
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