Crain’s Detroit: Voices of families need to be considered in debate to reform state’s Medicaid behavioral health system

Some of the voices least heard in the discussion to privatize the Medicaid-funded behavioral health system in Michigan or improve the current system are the families of those 350,000 people with mental health problems, substance abuse addictions or the intellectually or developmentally disabled. I sat down recently with 10 family and board members of the Read more about Crain’s Detroit: Voices of families need to be considered in debate to reform state’s Medicaid behavioral health system[…]

The Detroit News: Lyon – House health bill threatens Medicaid expansion

Lansing — The U.S. House health care overhaul legislation approved last week could trigger the end of the state’s Healthy Michigan Medicaid expansion program or require legislators to make major changes, the state’s health director said Tuesday. It would cost the state roughly $800 million a year to continue the low-income insurance plan on its Read more about The Detroit News: Lyon – House health bill threatens Medicaid expansion[…]