‘Healthy Michigan’ Bill Puts Health Coverage for 670,000 People at Risk
Up to 54,000 Michiganders would lose Medicaid coverage as a direct result of the bill, the
On top of the directly harmful work requirement and premiums, the legislation includes a provision that puts all of Healthy Michigan at risk. If the federal
Premiums totaling 5 percent of household income are unprecedented in Medicaid, which doesn't allow premiums at all except for people with incomes above 150 percent of the poverty line, and they're substantially higher than what people with similar incomes pay for coverage in the ACA marketplaces in states that haven't expanded Medicaid. CMS has approved Medicaid demonstration projects waiving this rule and letting states charge premiums to people with lower incomes, but never as high as 5 percent.
Under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, a state can implement an "experimental, pilot or demonstration project which, in the judgment of the Secretary [of
In fact, an ongoing court challenge to the waiver that CMS approved for
The outcome of the
Far from putting Healthy Michigan on a more sustainable footing, the legislation now before
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