Michigan Medicaid Proposal Would Harm People in All Parts of the State
A bill before
Put simply, the
The uninsured rate among non-elderly Michiganders has dropped 50 percent since the state implemented Healthy Michigan in 2014. And it's fallen in every part of the state, with every county except one seeing a drop of at least 40 percent. (For county-specific data, select "Change in uninsured rate" on the map below, which my colleagues
See chart here (https://www.cbpp.org/blog/michigan-medicaid-proposal-would-harm-people-in-all-parts-of-the-state).
A bill that the
The bill lets residents in counties with unemployment above 8.5 percent meet the requirement by looking for a job. But this modified requirement would apply to only about 3 percent of those facing the work requirement, or roughly 30,000 people, we calculate using
The bill's supporters say they may change the unemployment trigger provision or make other changes, such as lowering the weekly work requirement or creating new exemptions. But any bill that retains the
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