Category: Correspondence
The Affordable Care Act: How it Benefits People with Disabilities
The Affordable Care Act: How it Benefits People with Disabilities Produced by: Michigan Consumers for Healthcare, Michigan Disability Rights Coalition, United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan
Developing a Health Insurance Exchange that Works for Consumers: Policy Priorities
DEVELOPING A MIHEALTH MARKETPLACE THAT WORKS FOR CONSUMERS Michigan Consumers for Healthcare (MCH) actively advocates for consumer-focused implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires the development of a health insurance marketplace which will provide access to tax…
Countdown to Chaos or Advancement? Guest Blog by Jan Hudson
Countdown to Chaos or Advancement? We are now only days from the much anticipated Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act. The potential and far-reaching impacts of the Supreme Court’s decision on the fate of the ACA are mindboggling…
MCH Co-Submits Amicus Brief on Severability Issue Before the U.S. Supreme Court
The Patient Protection and Affordable care Act expanded health care coverage in several ways by reforming the health care financing and delivery system. These reforms benefit all of us. Amici have attempted to put the ACA in context. The so-called…
Gongwer News: Fed Deny State Request on Health Insurance
Gongwer Volume #50, Report #246 — Monday, December 19, 2011 Feds Deny State Request On Health Insurance Michigan residents may see rebates of at least $53 million from health insurance companies because of a decision by the federal government, but…
An excerpt from the remarks on MCH Director Don Hazaert before the Senior Advocates of Grand Rapids, Friday November 18, 2011 at Frederick Meijers Gardens
NEXT SLIDE- Mark Pauly The father of the individual mandate is conservative economist- and former policy advisor to President George H.W. Bush- Mark Pauly who advocated for the adoption of a universal healthcare proposal that would keep government from eventually…
Letter to Secretary Sebelius on the Medical Loss Ratio In Michigan
Submitted electronically August 3, 2011 Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C 20201 Dear Secretary Sebelius: On behalf of Michigan Consumers for Healthcare (MCH), a statewide coalition dedicated to meaningful implementation of…