Rep. Levin Issues Statement on Michigan Medicaid Plan
Targeted News Service
WASHINGTON, June 7 -- Rep. Sander Levin, D-Michigan, issued the following statement after Michigan State Senate's passage of the Medicaid legislation (S.B. 897) that imposes many new requirements and conditions on recipients of the Healthy Michigan Medicaid plan:
The bill, which originated in the Senate, was modified and passed by the MI House of Representatives yesterday and sent back to the Senate which approved it today. The bill now goes to Governor Snyder for his consideration:
"Republicans in Lansing say they are promoting work, but this bill will raise health care costs for tens of thousands of low-wage workers in Michigan. According to the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency, the bill passed today will both end Medicaid coverage for up to 54,000 people and significantly raise premiums for up to another 35,000 Michiganders working just above the poverty line. That's hurting work, not promoting it.
"The latest version of the GOP legislation also puts at risk the entire Healthy Michigan program - covering over 660,000 Michiganders -- by including a trigger that would terminate the program if the Federal Department of Health and Human Services does not approve a waiver permitting the state to raise premiums on families with incomes between 100 percent and 133 percent of the poverty line.
"I strongly urge Governor Snyder to reject this misguided effort to turn back the tremendous progress we have made in dramatically reducing the number of Michiganders without health insurance - a concern that he also has expressed in the past."
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