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Michigan set to receive record-high number of COVID-19 doses for next week

Michigan is expected to receive a record-high 409,240 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses for next week, breaking a previous high of 388,000 doses allocated to it by the federal government in mid-January. If those first and second doses arrive Monday to hospitals, local…

Michigan House leaders announce extensive health care reform package

Michigan House leaders announce extensive health care reform package Rep. Bronna Kahle, R-Adrian, among Michigan health care reform bill sponsors. By Daily Telegram staff LANSING A 15-bill package that aims to lower the cost of prescription medicine and increase access to care was introduced Wednesday in the Michigan House.  State Rep. Bronna Kahle, R-Adrian, along with Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth, R-Farwell, and state Reps. Julie Calley, R-Portland, and Abdullah Hammoud, D-Dearborn, are the main sponsors of the legislation. “This is simply about better health care that people can actually afford,” Kahle, chairperson of the House Health Policy Committee, said in the release. “These cost-saving reforms are needed now more than ever, with so many people struggling to make ends meet during the ongoing pandemic. Saving money on health care could make a huge difference for senior citizens living on fixed incomes and families working hard to get ahead.”

House lawmakers seek to curb drug costs, increase health care access

House lawmakers announced a package of more than a dozen bills Wednesday to curtail health care costs in Michigan, including proposals to cap insulin co-payments and oral chemotherapy.  House Speaker Jason Wentworth, R-Farwell, announced the more than 15-bill package Wednesday as an effort to solve a crippling problem that has gained emphasis during the pandemic as people struggle with job loss, illness and COVID deaths.  In every case, the existing problems with our rigged health care system are magnified, Wentworth said. But as far too many people know in our state, those problems have always been there. It is well past time to fix this problem.

Michigan lawmakers propose health care reforms, including insulin copay caps

LANSING Michigan House Speaker Jason Wentworth and Republican colleagues are making health care reform a top priority this year, and they’ve got some Democrats on board for what could be a heavy lift in an often-divided state Legislature.  Wentworth on Wednesday announced a 15-bill package that seeks to drive down the price of prescription drugs and improve access to certain services. He called it the first phase in a longer-term effort to fix what he called a “rigged” health care system whose profit motives have been magnified by the coronavirus pandemic.   While sponsors expect pushback from private insurers and other lobbyists, state Rep. Adullah Hammoud, D-Dearborn, said the package proposes several “leaps forward” for Michigan in ways that transcend political and partisan lines. 

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