… welfare checks, health care and Medicaid, one in three Michigan residents … categories went up. The number of Medicaid recipients in Michigan grew 21% since … have to verify the eligibility of Medicaid recipients. That has changed. The … people were purged from Michigan’s Medicaid rolls just since the start of 2024. …
… 2023 is 30% higher than the roughly 2.6 million served in 2019, when Whitmer took office. State welfare assistance programs include the following: Medicaid, food stamps, State Emergency Relief, the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance and Child Development and Care. The Michigan …
… 2017): 205-230. 23 Thomas DeLeire, Leonard M. Lopoo and Kosali I. Simon, “Medicaid expansions and fertility in the United States” (Demography 48, no. 2, … Economics 66, 2017): 119-131; Friederike Seifert, "The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion and interstate migration in border regions of US States" (Review …
… greater welfare benefits but that the stringency of rules had no discernible effect on migration patterns.[75] One study evaluates the effect of Medicaid expansion in Massachusetts in 2010. The authors find that Massachusetts’ health insurance subsidies for low-income individuals led to significant …
… and a 4% increase on other roads.”[42] [*] This ratio is the sum of social service and public health spending divided by the sum of Medicare and Medicaid spending. Elizabeth H. Bradley, Maureen Canavan, Erika Rogan, Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Chima Ndumele, Lauren Taylor and Leslie A. Curry, "Variation …
… health care coverage to low-income households. Examining the impact of Medicaid expansions in the 1980s, a team of researchers “conclude that there is no robust relationship between Medicaid expansions and fertility.”[23] Researchers often note the need for broad-based …
… through private insurance or through the government programs Medicare and Medicaid. Part of the reason for this is third-party payments. Insurers pay medical … cover. And taxpayers cover the costs for people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid. “We’ve done a pretty good job of suppressing who pays for all the health …
… proposals would have elevated union contracts above state law, mandated more industrial wind turbines, and allowed a union to keep skimming dues from Medicaid payments to home health care workers. Jarrett gave more than 30 speeches around the state warning about the effects of these proposals. He also …
… provider relationships. 5. Reserve Medicaid resources for the truly needy Medicaid is the largest line item in most … priorities. In 2020, more than 25% of Medicaid spending went to people who do not … insurers to deliver much of the Medicaid program, every ineligible enrollee …
… eligibility for those receiving Medicaid. But Gov. Gretchen Whitmer … to ensure people receiving Medicaid are eligible for it, Michigan … to protect the profits of Medicaid insurance companies at the … engaged in routine reviews of Medicaid beneficiaries' eligibility. … enrollment of everyone on Medicaid — even if enrollees became …
… typically the family of seriously ill or disabled people who qualified for Medicaid support. For the care they provided, these family members received modest … bargain. The union, nevertheless, siphoned over $33 million from these Medicaid payments — money meant to care for the sick and disabled. After the Michigan …
… recommendation to spend all of the collected tax revenue. This doesn’t give lawmakers a lot of room to respond to unexpected needs, like increased demand for Medicaid in the event of an unexpected recession. Plus, the desire to spend all tax revenue puts pressure on lawmakers to increase taxes if revenue drops …
… 340B program only does this indirectly, if at all. Yes, the program is limited to nonprofit hospitals serving a higher percentage of patients on Medicaid. But there’s no requirement that hospitals use the profits they make from it to help low-income patients, which works against the spirit behind the …
… Services asserted a claim of its own. The department said that under the policy of estate recovery, it was due the surplus as repayment for funds its Medicaid program had spent on Bouford-Hiar’s behalf. The circuit court agreed with the state, and in August 2021, put a pause on Litzner’s suit against the …
… training in prisons. Create meaningful school accountability. Reduce overcriminalization and recidivism rates. Maintain the sustainability of Michigan’s Medicaid program. Keep Line 5 open and support a tunnel to protect it. “Tonight, Gov. Whitmer will set out her administration’s priorities for the year,” …
… Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the U.S. … it claims will streamline Medicaid services. The rule’s practical … eligible for the program. Medicaid is a massive federal and … states’ ability to police Medicaid rolls. It is estimated that up to 20% of Medicaid spending nationwide may already …
… Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the U.S. … it claims will streamline Medicaid services. The rule’s practical … eligible for the program. Medicaid is a massive federal and … states’ ability to police Medicaid rolls. It is estimated that up to 20% of Medicaid spending nationwide may already …
… receives a lot of federal funding for means-tested support programs like Medicaid. Total federal revenue for the Department of Health and Human Service … increased $3.3 billion, a 19.5% increase when adjusting for inflation. State Medicaid rolls are up 69% over the period, in part due to the change in eligibility …
… percentage of patients on Medicaid. The problem? The drugs … program don’t have to go to Medicaid beneficiaries. As the Richmond … in the number of people on Medicaid. The number of Medicaid enrollees has skyrocketed … people became eligible for Medicaid, more hospitals and health …
… 11.75% of its patients are in Medicaid. In the past decade, many … limits of those eligible for Medicaid, exploding the total number … improved, lawmakers expanded Medicaid, adding more than 800,000 … government health care rolls. Medicaid is now 27% of the Michigan … people became eligible for Medicaid, more hospitals and clinics …
… Health and Human Services oversees the state’s Medicaid program. The federal government tied some of … to a requirement that the state keep people on Medicaid during the pandemic, even if their income went … limits. The state has 637,000 more people on Medicaid than it did when the pandemic began. Public …
… scheme. Bob and Pat receive monthly Medicaid checks to take care of their two … in 2019 ending the diversion of Medicaid payments to unions. The federal agency that oversees Medicaid said the rule was meant to ensure … suffer the most: Directing federal Medicaid money away from its intended purpose …
… the early 2000s, SEIU locals across the country, including its Michigan affiliate, took millions of dollars from people who were getting paid by Medicaid to care for their disabled family members in their own home. The union did this by enrolling these caregivers as members, usually without their consent, …
… mandates and rules that have the force of law. There are more than 30 such grants of power. They address a variety of issues, including plant diseases, Medicaid payments to medical providers, dry cleaning, mobile home licensing, adulterated food products, metal and coal mining, and much more. The design …
… Employees International Union went from 47,805 to 16,486, a 65.5% decrease. The union was sued after it illegally diverted more than $6 million in Medicaid funds to itself, taking money meant for disabled individuals who had hired others, often their family members, to help them at home. Critics called …
… in income taxes, they spent 28 cents distributing it to K-12 schools. Another 27 cents went to social assistance programs, the majority of that to Medicaid. All told, here is how Lansing spends your income taxes: It gets more granular than that. Lawmakers don’t just fund departments. They break up …
… applies to drug makers that want to serve the markets funded by Medicare and Medicaid. Under it, the companies must sell certain drugs at a discount to hospitals … who lacked insurance coverage. The study noted also that enlarging the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act increased public spending costs. …
… opposes the expansion of Medicaid payments to labor organizations … discover the redirection of Medicaid payments to labor organizations, … deduction of union dues from the Medicaid payments of home-based caregivers … system in which payments of Medicaid funds can be directed to … compensated primarily through Medicaid payments. Despite this, the …
… to the commission’s meetings and commit the Legislature to oversee it through annual reviews. Another state program that needs more oversight is Medicaid. During the pandemic, the state suspended its regular reviews of the program, which it had used to verify if people enrolled in it were eligible …
… payer insurance market and in Medicaid. This flexibility increases … comes to telemedicine for Medicaid recipients, including those … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state policymakers … Health and Human Services gave Medicaid recipients increased freedom … lines and permanently allow Medicaid recipients to use telemedicine …
… by an overall shortage of primary care physicians, or an uneven displacement of them. Regardless of the reason, vulnerable populations — those on Medicaid, the poor and uninsured, Michiganders with disabilities, and those living in rural areas — have less access to primary care providers. Research shows …
… Nov. 4 the federal government would require COVID-19 vaccinations by Jan. 4 for all U.S. health care workers whose employers receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. On Jan. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a federal vaccine mandate imposed on 17 million health care workers nationwide.
… participating hospitals are more profitable than non-participating hospitals. The 340B government program is designed to assist patients not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare but still are low income and help pay for prescription medications. Hospitals call this charity care which means they do not expect to …
… 1965, Congress created the Medicaid program to pay for medical … by the federal government, Medicaid is administered by the states, … number of people covered by Medicaid in Michigan and the program’s … program.) The number of Medicaid participants increased from … Lawmakers deliberately expanded Medicaid coverage to residents with …
… dues from being skimmed from Medicaid. The federal government … used to pay for state-run Medicaid programs, and it can attach … many programs funded through Medicaid provides care to adults with … and other institutions. Medicaid provides stipends to the … Michigan receive a stipend from Medicaid to take care of their adult …
… reauthorize union’s ability to skim dues from Medicaid payments used to pay for home health care workers. … care workers. These workers, who often rely on Medicaid payments to provide care for their sick or disabled … shortage of home health care workers and direct Medicaid payments away from their intended purpose. Funds …
… educational outcomes is a different story. They tend not to. The governor has recommended increasing pay for direct care workers. People are paid by Medicaid to take care of family members who need help, and companies also work to provide these services as well. Rates are set in law, and increasing wage …
… homes: 1) Skilled Nursing Homes, 2) Adult Foster Care, and 3) Homes for the Aged. Skilled Nursing Homes are regulated by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and are under federal jurisdiction. Adult Foster Care and Homes for the Aged facilities are regulated by the Michigan Department of Licensing …
… Michigan has delivered millions of dollars in overpayments to vendors under a Medicaid program meant to help needy people with daily activities such as bathing, … the first time the Office of the Auditor General found issues with the Medicaid Home Help Program. In an audit covering October 2010 through August 2013, …
… reductions, they never fell anywhere close to the pre-recession levels. There were some other important policy changes. State lawmakers expanded Medicaid eligibility to collect further federal cash in 2015 and that increased the share of the state budget that comes from Washington. Federal transfers …
… to committee, no further action at this time. House Bill 4208: Expand Medicaid alcoholism coverage Introduced by Rep. Abdullah Hammoud (D), to require Michigan’s Medicaid benefits program to cover fee-based medical services related to a primary …
… considered using review panels to decide whether America’s Medicare and Medicaid programs should pay for certain treatments. Under this system, the panels … year. Michigan does not use QALY for treatment decisions in the state’s Medicaid program, state officials told Michigan Capitol Confidential last year. …
… are a lot of decisions that get built into budgets. Increased demand for Medicaid during the pandemic cost more than $870 million — some of it supported … federal dollars — and perhaps a recovering economy will put less strain on Medicaid rolls. It simply comes down to whether lawmakers make reducing taxes …
… lot of decisions that get built into budgets. The increase in demand for Medicaid during the pandemic cost more than $870 million — federal support included — and perhaps a recovering economy will put less strain on Medicaid rolls. It simply comes down to whether lawmakers make reducing taxes …
… anticipate record levels of Medicaid enrollment next fiscal year … money to state coffers. While Medicaid has been a significant part … relief bills affecting the Medicaid program. One provision temporarily … federal government’s share of Medicaid costs by 6.2 percentage points. … that states can’t remove Medicaid recipients even if they are …
… we were recognized for our contribution to ending the infamous dues skim, a scheme that allowed for unions to forcibly “skim” money off the top of Medicaid care providers’ paychecks. This practice is now extinct, thanks in large part to the years-long work of the Center and our fellow SPN organizations. …
… they got in fiscal year 2018-19. The Department of Health Human Services gets $554 million more, partially because there are more people covered by Medicaid in the pandemic. Michigan took a year off from its taxpayer-paid tourism advertising program, and reinstating it is more of a priority in the eyes …
… got in fiscal year 2018-19. The Department of Health and Human Services gets $554 million more, partially because there are more people covered by Medicaid in the pandemic. Michigan took a year off from its taxpayer-paid tourism advertising program, and reinstating it is more of a priority for lawmakers …
… changes customers could still choose unlimited PIP coverage, or choose policies with PIP limits of $250,000, $500,000, and for individuals covered by Medicaid, $50,000. Seniors on Medicare and individuals covered by other health insurance with less than a $6,000 deductible could choose not to purchase any …
… billion of that is fueled by federal revenue and $330 million comes in added state spending. In September, there were 228,000 more people receiving Medicaid, the biggest program of the department, than there were in February. One motivation for the federal relief efforts was to ensure people remained …
… local governments received $150 billion for unexpected expenditures directly arising from the pandemic, on top of billions earmarked for education, Medicaid and other continuing programs. The state and local assistance came with restrictions that it could be used only for new expenses directly related …
… on each pack of cigarettes. Instead of putting all of that money in the General Fund, the Legislature instead transferred 75% of it to the state Medicaid Trust Fund. In 2015, state lawmakers chose to redirect $600 million in income tax revenue from the General Fund and moved it to the State Transportation …
… attorneys general from most American states settled lawsuits against large tobacco companies, having first asserted that governments needed to recoup Medicaid-related costs associated with the sale of tobacco products. The tobacco “Master Settlement Agreement” that resulted from the lawsuits came with a …
… Michigan, day care and home health care providers who received checks through Medicaid became a target. Together with then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm, unions set … holding a stealth election. Then, they started taking dues out of the Medicaid checks from more than 100,000 people. This netted three of Michigan’s …
… majority of its money on schools and Medicaid. This spending has steadily increased … tend to drive state spending on Medicaid. The state expanded its Medicaid coverage to more people above the … emergency, the state should require Medicaid enrollees to report changes in circumstances …
… during the November 2020 general election. House Bill 5416: Revise restrictions on “telemedicine” services: Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate To permit Medicaid and other social welfare medical assistance programs to reimburse providers for some telemedicine services if the recipient is in an “in-home or …
… Legislature and the Democratic governor. The governor wanted to raise taxes to increase funding for roads and other spending areas like schools and Medicaid. Republican legislators wanted to rely on the state’s growing revenues to increase road funding. They butted heads until the next fiscal year started, …
… taxes or going into debt. The state has over $1 billion saved for such an occasion. The federal government has also already provided some relief for Medicaid and education expenses, and it can loosen restrictions on some other assistance that has already been made available. Even with extra cash, lawmakers …
… give a temporary $3 per hour bonus to “direct care workers” covered by Medicaid and other social welfare programs; $50 million in grants to buy personal … messaging." House Bills 5413 to 5416 amend other laws to make similar changes in Medicaid and related social welfare programs, and also remove current restrictions …
… themselves have health insurance coverage through an employer or Medicare may select no PIP coverage at all. Finally, drivers who have insurance through Medicaid may select PIP coverage capped at $50,000. The new law requires auto insurance companies and agencies to give all policyholders a standardized form, …
… government to prevent some spending reductions. The federal government has already announced grants to state and local governments for education and Medicaid spending. There are further federal grants to state and local governments already approved, though they come with some restrictions we have argued …
… governor’s proposed budget for this year was flush, with substantial increases in most areas of state government, including K-12 schools, universities, Medicaid, Pure Michigan advertising and most departments. The virus changed that, freezing spending, cutting the budget and redirecting money. Michigan has …
… allocations are to prisons, Medicaid and state universities. … them may be eligible for Medicaid. The pandemic may also cause … for people to be covered by Medicaid, and it makes those groups … If the number of people in Medicaid needing treatment for COVID-19 … and physicians receive from Medicaid are less than the costs they …
… Hillsdale’s revenue comes from treating patients covered by social welfare programs: 70% of all it health care service reimbursements are from Medicare and Medicaid. Such programs typically pay less than private insurers do. “We’re the third-largest employer in the county,” Hodshire said. “If we were to continue …
… allocations are to prisons, Medicaid and state universities. … them may be eligible for Medicaid. The pandemic may also cause … for people to be covered by Medicaid, and it makes those groups … If the number of people in Medicaid needing treatment for COVID-19 … and physicians receive from Medicaid are less than the costs they …
… entity. 2020 House Bill 5631: Include coronavirus treatment and more in Medicaid benefits Introduced by Rep. Abdullah Hammoud (D) to include coronavirus treatment costs among those the state Medicaid and other social welfare programs will pay for, including doctor visits, …
… the $10.6 billion income tax to schools, for instance, but other spending interests don’t call that spending — $2.9 billion worth — as a cut to Medicaid or whatever other spending item that could have received that money. Schools and roads aren’t the only things that lawmakers care about, either, …
… able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid benefits through the state’s … said that the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare, or CMS, had … we should recognize about Medicaid work and community engagement … issue with the Center for Medicaid and Medicare and its analysis. … it will continue to defend Medicaid work requirement waivers …
… welfare programs, including Medicaid. Researchers at the Pioneer … health systems like state Medicaid programs, use it, the researchers … Institute analysis, said Medicaid programs that use the assessments … perilous ground, because many Medicaid recipients are disabled. … analysis found. Michigan’s Medicaid program does not use QALY, …
… summer could be testy. One of the budget-related flashpoints will be Healthy Michigan, our state’s version of the national push to add more people to Medicaid. Approximately 670,000 new people have enrolled — almost 50% more than were forecast when the law was passed. As a result, the state is rapidly approaching …
… Obamacare gives states to extend Medicaid coverage to able-bodied, … keep the expanded form of Medicaid and use so-called market-based … choose to reside. Freeze Medicaid enrollment for able-bodied … director John Nixon said of the Medicaid program. In 2010, Michigan … but he was unable to touch Medicaid — which at that point consumed …
… raise fuel taxes by 45 cents a gallon, with 14 cents of the tax going beyond road funding and into her other priorities, like K-12 education and Medicaid. Mackinac Center scholars, myself included, pointed out that Michigan lawmakers had looked within the state budget and found $1 billion in extra …
… extensively – and, at first, exclusively — on how unions and state agencies entered a deal to “unionize” home caregivers and extract “dues” from the small Medicaid stipends the receive. Many of these caregivers were friends or family members of the disabled individuals they help. But the unions claimed they …
… state governments — not just Michigan’s — is Medicaid, and the Obamacare Medicaid expansion (i.e., Healthy Michigan) is becoming … greater than was originally forecast. The main Medicaid program for the low-income elderly, disabled, …
… only, not federal or local dollars. No. 4 Headline: Republicans Imposed Medicaid Work Requirements; Governor Wants To Undo Them From the story: Michigan’s … predecessor to require childless, able-bodied beneficiaries of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion to meet work, training or community service requirements. In …
… Center Legal Foundation discovered that the Service Employees International Union was automatically deducting union dues from home-based caregivers’ Medicaid payments. The SEIU had unionized thousands of home health care workers, unbeknownst to them, and siphoned tens of millions of dollars into its coffers. …
… spending, for a total of $573.8 million. The added spending in the two bills is spread across many budget line items, and includes $340 million more for Medicaid and other social welfare programs and $35 million in operations funding for charter schools. The House passed the same provisions in Senate Bills …
… Big policy decisions that impact the state budget are often made outside the annual budget process. For instance, lawmakers chose to expand its Medicaid services in 2013 which requires billions in additional taxpayer spending. Annual budgets only provide the money to pay for that decision rather than …
… as a free-market conservative, “but health care is not a free market,” he said. “Half of all customers are covered by the government (Medicare and Medicaid).” While new cellular therapies using blood modified in a laboratory are promising, he said, they are also extremely expensive and perilous. “The …
… Legislature’s top priorities: schools, roads and Medicaid. The transportation budget increased from $5.0 … The largest increases in state spending are on Medicaid. With federal transfers, the state is budgeted … human services department, up from $25.5 billion. Medicaid itself counts for the bulk of the increases, …
… spending across the board, with the two largest increases being $523 million more for schools and $446 million for health and human services, especially Medicaid. The House and Senate budgets increase spending in these areas as well, but more modestly. Lawmakers should propose budgets in line with their priorities. …
… state up for the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. Whitmer joined … more people eligible for Medicaid and was expected to send … get that in the Senate. So, Medicaid expansion could not begin … immediately. That way, the Medicaid expansion would go into effect … (unrecorded) vote, and the Medicaid expansion went into effect …
$31,317,790.40 — Amount of money taken from Medicaid checks during the dues skim between 2004 and 2013 $200 million — Amount of money annually siphoned even after the dues skim was ruled unconstitutional 84% — Percentage of home care givers who opted to leave the SEIU once given a choice
Under the dues skim, Medicaid payments meant to aid the elderly and disabled were diverted to unions. … these union efforts by making it illegal for Medicaid payments to go to anyone other than the care … they continued to divert around $200 million in Medicaid funds, despite the Supreme Court’s decision. …
… federal lands. In May, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a new rule that prohibits unions from skimming dues off the payments Medicaid sends to home health care providers. This should sound familiar to long-time Mackinac Center supporters. We discovered this problem in Michigan in …
… Selective state spending on local projects is constitutionally dubious and generally wasteful. All three budgets recommend spending more state money on Medicaid as the federal government decreases its share. Overall, state spending on the health and human services budget increases by a low of $348 million …
… Highway." Senate Bill 362, Ease reporting requirements for able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries: Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate To grant greater leeway in … by able-bodied individuals accepting health coverage benefits under the Medicaid expansion authorized by the federal health care law. A 2018 law made getting …
… That’s good. Select spending to local projects is constitutionally dubious and generally wasteful. All three recommend spending more state money on Medicaid as the federal government decreases its share. Overall, state spending on the health and human services budget increases by a low of $348 million …
… coverage. Customers could still choose unlimited PIP coverage, or choose policies with PIP limits of $250,000, $500,000, and for individuals covered by Medicaid, $50,000. Seniors on Medicare and individuals covered by other health insurance with less than a $6,000 deductible could choose not to purchase any …
… Lindsay Killen partnered with Jase Bolger, former speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, in The Detroit News. They wrote on how Michigan’s Medicaid work requirements “will reward the dignity of work that promotes the health and well-being of those served, help fill the strong demand for workers …
… involving work requirements and Medicaid, a federal-state medical … who are newly eligible for Medicaid, after first getting permission … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, also known as CMS, approved … requirements run contrary to Medicaid’s purpose. This is the second … which are moving forward with Medicaid work and community engagement …
… increased costs for both Medicaid and private health insurance. … overall state spending on Medicaid. The Michigan Senate Fiscal … potential increased cost of Medicaid from these no-fault reforms … amount the state spends on Medicaid and overall. In fiscal 2017, … spent about $16.8 billion on Medicaid. Even if the state had to …
… insurers. Large private health insurers and government programs like Medicare, Medicaid and workers’ compensation establish a set fee for each service that they … a no-fault policy can cost significantly more than an MRI paid for by Medicaid — sometimes 10 times as much. Both SB 1 and HB 4397 would establish a …
… health care dues skim, whereby Medicaid grants meant to fund the … been skimmed off the top of Medicaid payments meant to provide … Eventually the dues skim ended, Medicaid recipients got their full … divert around $200 million in Medicaid funds. The new federal rule … than the care provider or Medicaid recipient. The unions will …
… family members. These individuals are eligible to receive payments from Medicaid to compensate them for the care they provide. But in some states, a portion … Mackinac Center study, of the tens of billions of dollars spent on two Medicaid programs meant to provide assistance to disabled and low-income families, …
… policymakers decided to expand Medicaid under “Healthy Michigan” … $4,300 per adult enrolled in Medicaid, funded through over $4 billion … 71 percent of the state’s Medicaid costs and funds 95 percent … able-bodied population on Medicaid. Just before Gov. Gretchen … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved the waiver, …
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in The Hill on March 15, 2019. Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began a public comment period seeking feedback from the states regarding possible federal reform that would make it easier for health insurers to sell plans across …
… providers, to pay union dues by automatically deducting fees from their Medicaid payments on behalf of low-income and disabled Americans.[4] With the loss … Network), https://perma.cc/6HQP-MWQ5; Maxford Nelson, “Unions are Siphoning Medicaid Funds by Bullying Caregivers,” (Washington Examiner, May 10, 2017), https://perma.cc/7ZJX-KX96. …
… beneficiaries of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion to meet work, training … predicted that Michigan’s new Medicaid work requirements would cause … according to national experts on Medicaid and health care policy, many … may explain why people left Medicaid after that state implemented … said in an interview that Medicaid and any work requirements …
… propriety of all state occupational licenses. Defend Medicaid Work Requirements: Work or community engagement … receive benefits through the Healthy Michigan Medicaid-expansion program were passed last year and should … able-bodied adults and protect the individuals that Medicaid was originally intended for. “The new political …