I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Michigan is one of a dozen states that have taken no action to implement state-based health care exchanges in advance of the Affordable Care Act coming into full force in 2014.
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein reports that 33 states have considered bills — with 10 passing their bills — nine states have passed legislation which do not create exchanges but do declare an intent to do so, and a dozen remain without any action on it all.
The exchanges are designed to create a larger insurance pool to spread out risks for coverage and thereby reducing costs of coverage for health insurance.
And while Michigan may have not taken any action yet, Ari Adler, spokesperson for Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R-Marshall), says that will change this fall.
“Our caucus will be studying the issue this fall,” he tells Michigan Messenger in an email. “Whether people like President Obama’s idea of federally mandated healthcare or not, we need to start looking at this issue and determining what will work best for the people of Michigan. If we do nothing, the system will default to the federal government and we’re not convinced that’s best for anyone.”
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