Michigan Senate Bills 414 and 415, which will improve private insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders, will only be helping a small sector of residents. A broader mental health parity law will finally end health care discrimination against all mental health disorders. Expanding these bills to cover all mental health ...
The recent ruckus over mandating coverage for contraception in private health insurance plans contrasts two worldviews, only one of which -- the Republicans' -- accords with bedrock tenets of American political philosophy. As loony as contra-contraception may be, the defense of people's freedom to be loony is as American as it gets.
We should ask Congress to reject any legislation that would empower employers to deny insurance coverage for birth control. In the case of the Catholic church using the issue to sound like a victim of religious persecution, let us remember that it has freely chosen to operate colleges, hospitals, etc. ...
Ypsilanti Township is projecting it will save $600,000 on health care next year with a new way of providing insurance for its employees. The township Board of Trustees and union heads worked together to help find the savings, which will go into effect in 2012.
Several years ago, my husband left a traditional job to work on entrepreneurial projects. When his COBRA health coverage ended, we faced a problem -- because of preexisting conditions, we couldn’t get health insurance anywhere. Because I have not worked full time since our young children were born, I had ...
Free bicycle helmets for children and medical care for the homeless are just a few ways donations in 2010 have been used to help Washtenaw County individuals without private insurance. A number of practices serving the uninsured have received corporate gifts recently. Packard Health won $20,000 from Thomson Reuters in ...
Uninsured adults in Washtenaw County can now enroll in a state-funded program that's been closed to new members for almost 18 months. But residents only have until Nov. 30 to apply for coverage.
Want a chance to hear about the impact the national health care legislation passed Sunday could have on you? How about understanding what's going on at the state level? The University of Michigan is hosting an event, "Health care reform at the state vs. national level: Tradeoffs and tipping points," ...
Health care information is coming from multiple sources and much of it is conflicting. Do we take vitamins or get our vitamins from a good diet? What is a good diet? Low carbs? Low fat? Grapefruit? Organic? How much exercise is enough? Should it be cardio? Or weights? Yoga or ...
The University of Michigan has been added to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's Medicare Advantage Network and will allow seniors who purchase the plan to access any provider at the U-M hospitals, it was announced Wednesday. The Medicare Plus Blue PPO, which was announced in October, has lower premiums ...
More than 20 percent of the state's employers are embracing a lower-cost health insurance option for their employees, propelling it into second place among health plan product categories in Michigan. A recent survey of 832 Michigan employers by United Benefits Advisors showed that consumer-driven health plans have overtaken HMO plans ...
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