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 House Republican leadership says it will delay approving the creation of a statewide health insurance exchange, in part to await the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the health care reform law which mandates the creation of the exchanges.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to immediately hear a legal challenge to President Obama’s health care reform bill without allowing the appeals court to hear the case first.
Former U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) will not be staying in Michigan now that he has retired from Congress. The former lawmaker is heading east to serve as a resident fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee whose jurisdiction includes health care policy, says he will make repeal of last year’s historic health care reform bill a top priority.
Requiring insurance companies to cover birth control pills could improve women’s lives, reduce the abortion rate and cut state health care costs.
The big issue about federal health care reform is whether it will be a burden on the state of Michigan, Spectrum Health President and CEO Rick Breon told a gathering in Grand Rapids this week. The Grand Rapids Press reports that Breon predicted that the recent reforms will not be repealed.
A group of experts advising the government on health care reform will soon consider the question of whether birth control medication should be considered preventive medicine under the terms of the overhaul of our health care system passed earlier this year. The Associated Press reports on the arguments:
When the health care reform bill is fully implemented in 2014 nearly a million Michigan residents will be eligible for tax breaks to help them pay for their health insurance premiums. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A legal challenge to health care reform filed in federal court in Michigan may have been dismissed last week but a similar challenge in Florida will continue. A federal judge in Florida rejected a motion to dismiss and ordered the case to go to trial. Regardless of the outcome, the case will likely end up [...]
A federal judge in Detroit dismissed a lawsuit challenging the health insurance mandate provision in the health care reform bill passed by Congress earlier this year. The suit was filed by the Thomas More Law Center, the Christian legal group based in Ann Arbor and founded by Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan, on behalf of themselves [...]
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