LANSING Three years after becoming governor on a pledge to increase transparency, Gretchen Whitmer is under fire yet again for keeping secrets.
As a gubernatorial candidate in 2018, the Democrat unveiled the Michigan Sunshine Plan, which she said would “rewrite the rules in Lansing to work for regular families by making the state government more open, transparent and accountable to Michigan taxpayers.”
Nothing has come of the plan, though, or Whitmer’s pledge to open the governor’s office to the state’s Freedom of Information Act and she’s under scrutiny for the second time in several weeks for being less than transparent.
Detailed Agenda for the 2021 Michigan State of Reform Health Policy Conference now available! Kaylor Erickson | Apr 28, 2021
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We are honored to have over almost 70 speakers slated for this conference, including:
Marti Kay Sherry:
Dominick Pallone:
Elizabeth Hertel:
Rep. Mary Whiteford:
David Schneider:
Robert Sheehan:
Sean Kendall:
Steve Barnett:
CEO, McKenzie Health System
This is just the start we have many more exciting speakers teed up for May 27th!
Health insurers extend no-cost COVID-19 testing, treatments, vaccines for patients
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A medical worker holds a tube during a saliva COVID-19 testing session at the Niederau school in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, March 11, 2021. France is rolling out coronavirus tests for young schoolchildren that use saliva samples rather than eye-watering nasal swabs, hoping that they will help prevent school closures as the country s epidemic steadily worsens again. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
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LANSING, Mich. â Michigan has secured agreements with many of the stateâs health insurers to extend commitments to waive out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and treatments.
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State, Health Insurers Further Extend Agreements to Provide Coronavirus Testing and Treatment at No Cost to Patients
Media Contact: Laura Hall, 517-290-3779, halll17@michigan.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 22, 2021
(LANSING, MICH) Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) have announced that the state has secured agreements from many of the state’s health insurers to further extend their commitments to waive all out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, and treatments. These agreements cover more than 90% of the commercial health insurance market in Michigan.
“We are using every tool at our disposal to fight this global pandemic, and one way we are doing that is by ensuring that Michiganders have the coverage they need for COVID-19-related health expenses,” said
Report: Michigan health insurers post big margin gains in first nine months of 2020
Enrollment up nearly 9%, despite COVID-19 pandemic impact
Hospitals do well financially in 2019, but fate not totally certain for 2020
Allan Baumgarten
Allan Baumgarten
For the third consecutive year, Michigan health plan insurance companies in 2020 recorded historically higher net income and margin gains, according to the latest edition of the Michigan Health Market Review.
Michigan HMOs, especially Medicaid plans, reported lower medical costs and stronger profits for the first nine months of 2020 as higher expenses for COVID-19 patients were more than offset by reduced claims for surgeries and other care that were deferred because of the pandemic, said Allan Baumgarten, a Minneapolis-based consultant who publishes the Michigan report and six other state health care reports.