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.
The Obama Department of Justice and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox are unlikely to agree on much, but they are joining forces in a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for collusion and market manipulation to maintain prices in the insurance market in this state. The Detroit News reports:
A couple weeks ago we published a story about a Michigan boy whose insurance company was refusing to cover a prosthetic arm he needed. That story came from Danielle Ivory of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, who now reports that the insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, has made a one-time exception and agreed [...]
Benjamin French was born with his right arm missing below the elbow. In his 12 years, the Macomb County child has been fitted with seven prostheses. His most recent replacement will cost nearly $30,000 and his doctor says he will soon grow out of it.
Helen Stojic, spokesperson for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, says the decision by the insurer to eliminate coverage of gender reassignment was simply a matter of aligning their product with what is currently offered in the market. “We took a look at our product line and what other insurers were covering in other markets,” [...]
A broad coalition of organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, The National Association of Social Workers, Transgender Michigan and others, are condemning a move by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to eliminate coverage for gender reassignment surgery. The new entity calls itself The Michigan Coalition for Gender Equality.
LANSING — The Michigan Senate will reconvene Tuesday following its two-week spring break, and it will mark the first time both the House and Senate have been in session at the same time since March 20. The House took its two-week break following its March 20 session, and it returned to session last week, but [...]
After months of negotiations and hearings, a package of bills aimed at reforming health coverage in the state may be pushed through the Michigan Senate within days. The Senate Health Policy Committee, chaired by Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, a medical doctor, has been holding hearings on House Bills 5282-5285, known collectively as the Individual Market Reform [...]
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