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.
Jackie Headapohl at Mlive.com reports that the U.S. House of Representatives plans to take up a $180 billion bill that includes a provision to extend unemployment benefits and to fix the so-called Medicare DocFix problem through the end of the year. The Medicare fix is required each year to prevent a cut in Medicare reimbursement [...]
Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor at the New Republic and a Michigan resident, has a column at Kaiser Health News criticizing Attorney General Mike Cox for joining a lawsuit seeking to overturn the recent health care reform bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. Noting that there are currently around 1.1 million [...]
A central provision of the health care reform bill will be limited by its short duration and narrow terms of coverage.
WASHINGTON — The Democratic push to slash tens of billions of dollars for private insurers who cover Medicare patients has been met on Capitol Hill by something unusual: a relative silence, even from supporters of the program. In past years, the Democrats’ proposals to cut subsidies to the popular but controversial Medicare Advantage program — [...]
LANSING — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, a candidate for governor, on Wednesday announced he was backing legislation to create an independent auditor to seek out and eliminate fraud in the state’s Medicaid and Medicare rolls. Cox said the state could save millions, according to the Detroit Free Press. Cox pointed to a similar program [...]
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