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Endnotes

… 205-230. 23 Thomas DeLeire, Leonard M. Lopoo and Kosali I. Simon, “Medicaid expansions and fertility in the United States” (Demography 48, no. 2, 2011): … 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 population …

Potential factors influencing birth rates

… childless women with similar backgrounds.[14] Expansions of the earned income tax credit also did not … low-income households. Examining the impact of Medicaid expansions in the 1980s, a team of researchers “conclude … there is no robust relationship between Medicaid expansions and fertility.”[23] Researchers often note …

COVID flexibilities that should outlive COVID-19

Here are nine suggestions for improving care and reducing costs

… Best practice telehealth expansion The pandemic demonstrated … relationships. 5. Reserve Medicaid resources for the truly needy Medicaid is the largest line item … In 2020, more than 25% of Medicaid spending went to people who … insurers to deliver much of the Medicaid program, every ineligible …

COVID Ratcheted up Federal Transfers to the State Budget

Federal transfers to Michigan jumped up to $33.0 billion

… Human Services oversees the state’s Medicaid program. The federal government tied … requirement that the state keep people on Medicaid during the pandemic, even if their … state has 637,000 more people on Medicaid than it did when the pandemic began. … the cash at hand to finance this expansion of state government. It has accumulated …

Medicaid Payments Should Go to Caregivers, Not to Unions

U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

… Center strongly opposes the expansion of Medicaid payments to labor organizations … discover the redirection of Medicaid payments to labor organizations, … deduction of union dues from the Medicaid payments of home-based caregivers … system in which payments of Medicaid funds can be directed to …

Telemedicine

… payer insurance market and in Medicaid. This flexibility increases … comes to telemedicine for Medicaid recipients, including those … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state policymakers … Health and Human Services gave Medicaid recipients increased freedom … health care through the expansion of telemedicine can help …

Many Emergency Orders To Fight COVID-19 Should Be Put Into Law For Good

… following subjects: Certificate of Need: The law, which prevents the expansion of health care facilities and services, was rolled back to deal with the … most areas of state government, including K-12 schools, universities, Medicaid, Pure Michigan advertising and most departments. The virus changed that, …

Michigan’s Personal Income Tax During Pandemic

… allocations are to prisons, Medicaid and state universities. … them may be eligible for Medicaid. The pandemic may also cause … for people to be covered by Medicaid, and it makes those groups … If the number of people in Medicaid needing treatment for COVID-19 … services given to the Medicaid expansion population, which is …

Michigan’s Personal Income Tax During Pandemic

Pressure on tax revenues and the services the taxes pay for

… allocations are to prisons, Medicaid and state universities. … them may be eligible for Medicaid. The pandemic may also cause … for people to be covered by Medicaid, and it makes those groups … If the number of people in Medicaid needing treatment for COVID-19 … services given to the Medicaid expansion population, which is …

There May Finally Be Hope for Moving Health Care Policy in the Right Direction

… Obamacare gives states to extend Medicaid coverage to able-bodied, … keep the expanded form of Medicaid and use so-called market-based … choose to reside. Freeze Medicaid enrollment for able-bodied … director John Nixon said of the Medicaid program. In 2010, Michigan … the Legislature to revisit expansion if the projected savings …

2020: A New Day, or Groundhog Day?

… governments — not just Michigan’s — is Medicaid, and the Obamacare Medicaid expansion (i.e., Healthy Michigan) is … was originally forecast. The main Medicaid program for the low-income elderly, … safety agencies. Now the Obamacare expansion threatens to compound that problem. …

CapCon’s Top 10 Stories For 2019

Road Fix That Wasn’t, Gun-Free Zones, 1,100 Windmills Won’t Replace This Coal Plant

… only, not federal or local dollars. No. 4 Headline: Republicans Imposed Medicaid Work Requirements; Governor Wants To Undo Them From the story: Michigan’s … to require childless, able-bodied beneficiaries of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion to meet work, training or community service requirements. In a February …

Large Hospitals Want State Monopoly On New Cancer Treatment

And a state commission will give it to them unless legislature acts

… created in 1978 to limit capital expenditures by medical facilities on expansions and expensive technology. State Rep. Hank Vaupel, R-Fowlerville, chairman … said. “Half of all customers are covered by the government (Medicare and Medicaid).” While new cellular therapies using blood modified in a laboratory are …

Whitmer Coy On ‘Medicare For All,’ But Went Extra Mile For Obamacare’s Medicaid

A parliamentary maneuver that raised eyebrows

… up for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Whitmer joined all … Republicans) in voting “yes” on the expansion, which made more people eligible for Medicaid and was expected to send … that in the Senate. So, Medicaid expansion could not begin until … immediately. That way, the Medicaid expansion would go into effect …

Aretha Franklin, Medicaid, Mandated Dental Exams and More

This week's MichiganVotes roll call report

… Highway." Senate Bill 362, Ease reporting requirements for able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries: Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate To grant greater leeway in … able-bodied individuals accepting health coverage benefits under the Medicaid expansion authorized by the federal health care law. A 2018 law made getting …

Republicans Imposed Medicaid Work Requirements; Governor Wants to Undo Them

Gov. Whitmer wants U-turn on making able-bodied medical welfare recipients get a job

… beneficiaries of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion to meet work, training … predicted that Michigan’s new Medicaid work requirements would cause … according to national experts on Medicaid and health care policy, many … were eligible for the Medicaid expansion in Arkansas re-enrolled, … someone who receives Medicaid-expansion benefits and is able …

Mackinac Center Releases 2019 Policy Recommendations

The Mackinac Center releases 2019 policy recommendations

… propriety of all state occupational licenses. Defend Medicaid Work Requirements: Work or community engagement … receive benefits through the Healthy Michigan Medicaid-expansion program were passed last year and should … able-bodied adults and protect the individuals that Medicaid was originally intended for. “The new political …

Gov. Whitmer Calls for Six Expansions of Government in First ‘State of the State’ Address

Mackinac Center provides annual tally of expansions and limitations

… Gretchen Whitmer called for six expansions of government and one limitation. This is fewer proposed expansions than the average number … of which would require an expansion of government. The Mackinac … Public Policy has tallied the expansions and limitations in the State … able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid to seek work, volunteer or …

Up 10 Percent And $3.2 Billion, State Still ‘Starved For Revenue’

Long-time budget analysts stuck on half-empty

… seeking comment. Bean responded to an email, but he claimed the Senate Fiscal Agency numbers that it cited included federal dollars including Medicaid expansion money. They did not.