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Pandemic response drove increase in government assistance in Michigan

One-third of the state is on government assistance. COVID-19 response was the dividing line

… welfare checks, health care and Medicaid, one in three Michigan residents … categories went up. The number of Medicaid recipients in Michigan grew 21% since … have to verify the eligibility of Medicaid recipients. That has changed. The … people were purged from Michigan’s Medicaid rolls just since the start of 2024.  …

One-third of Michigan residents receive government assistance

Number has grown 30% since Whitmer took office

… 2023 is 30% higher than the roughly 2.6 million served in 2019, when Whitmer took office. State welfare assistance programs include the following: Medicaid, food stamps, State Emergency Relief, the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance and Child Development and Care. The Michigan …

Endnotes

… 2017): 205-230. 23 Thomas DeLeire, Leonard M. Lopoo and Kosali I. Simon, “Medicaid expansions and fertility in the United States” (Demography 48, no. 2, … Economics 66, 2017): 119-131; Friederike Seifert, "The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion and interstate migration in border regions of US States" (Review …

Public finances

… greater welfare benefits but that the stringency of rules had no discernible effect on migration patterns.[75] One study evaluates the effect of Medicaid expansion in Massachusetts in 2010. The authors find that Massachusetts’ health insurance subsidies for low-income individuals led to significant …

Potential factors influencing death rates

… and a 4% increase on other roads.”[42] [*] This ratio is the sum of social service and public health spending divided by the sum of Medicare and Medicaid spending. Elizabeth H. Bradley, Maureen Canavan, Erika Rogan, Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Chima Ndumele, Lauren Taylor and Leslie A. Curry, "Variation …

Potential factors influencing birth rates

… health care coverage to low-income households. Examining the impact of Medicaid expansions in the 1980s, a team of researchers “conclude that there is no robust relationship between Medicaid expansions and fertility.”[23] Researchers often note the need for broad-based …

‘That is what makes health care so different from every other sector of the economy’

Brian Blase on putting the customer back in the health care system

… through private insurance or through the government programs Medicare and Medicaid. Part of the reason for this is third-party payments. Insurers pay medical … cover. And taxpayers cover the costs for people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. “We’ve done a pretty good job of suppressing who pays for all the health …

A Jarrett of All Trades

Meet Jarrett Skorup, Vice President for Marketing and Communications

… proposals would have elevated union contracts above state law, mandated more industrial wind turbines, and allowed a union to keep skimming dues from Medicaid payments to home health care workers. Jarrett gave more than 30 speeches around the state warning about the effects of these proposals. He also …

COVID flexibilities that should outlive COVID-19

Here are nine suggestions for improving care and reducing costs

… provider relationships. 5. Reserve Medicaid resources for the truly needy Medicaid is the largest line item in most … priorities. In 2020, more than 25% of Medicaid spending went to people who do not … insurers to deliver much of the Medicaid program, every ineligible enrollee …

Michigan deserves accountability for Medicaid

States must resume checking for eligibility

… eligibility for those receiving Medicaid. But Gov. Gretchen Whitmer … to ensure people receiving Medicaid are eligible for it, Michigan … to protect the profits of Medicaid insurance companies at the … engaged in routine reviews of Medicaid beneficiaries' eligibility. … enrollment of everyone on Medicaid — even if enrollees became …