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.
While the State House did vote to approve $2.1 billion in stimulus funds released by the feds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), House Dems say a move by GOP colleagues could jeopardize the state ever receiving the money.
The Michigan House on Wednesday passed three bills to help clean up political corruption and hold legislators responsible for attendance. The three bills would do the following:
Democrats have stalled on bill requiring birth control coverage Michigan women with health insurance can find themselves paying up to $65 a month for a prescription to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Meanwhile, their insured male counterparts can pick up a free prescription for Viagra. Michigan is one of 23 states that doesn’t require insurance companies [...]
LANSING – The controversy surrounding the acquisition of HCR Manor Care, a large operator of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, by the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, is shaping up as the classic tension between profit and the best care possible. The Michigan House of Representatives’ Health Policy Committee [...]
Four days before Christmas, global private equity firm Carlyle Group got the gift it asked for in July – the $6.3 billion purchase of nursing home giant Manor Care. Despite obstacles and objections in multiple states, Carlyle’s team closed the stock transfer deal in time for the holidays and before the end of the fiscal [...]
LANSING – Michigan lawmakers and their staffs are getting their first look at a Web site called Michigan Hospital Information, aimed at bringing price and quality information about the state’s hospitals to consumers in an easy-to-use format. The site is a voluntary effort developed by the Lansing-based Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA), a non-profit [...]
LANSING — State Rep. Kathy Angerer (D-Dundee), chair of the state House Health Policy Committee, and State Rep. Robert Jones (D-Kalamazoo), chair of the House Senior Health, Security and Retirement Committee, will hold a joint hearing Thursday. The hearing will investigate the purchase of nursing homes by private equity firms. The issue came to light [...]
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