Insights for action

Child Care and the 2024 Election

Over the past year, Lansing and Washington together assaulted Michigan's most powerful barriers to government overreach: intact families and local control of child care. This is the story of government-sponsored addiction to the most powerful drug available: “free”...

MDHHS Budget Values

Reviewing Governor Whitmer’s new MDHHS budget, we can see what she values. This is equally true of legislators who voted for it. What’s in the MDHHS Budget? Yesterday, MDHHS highlighted the budget’s mental health spending in a press release, “MDHHS Director Elizabeth...

From the Executive Director’s Desk

I did something brave this week. After 10 years of executing the Michigan Healthcare Freedom mission by promoting real health policy on Facebook – I changed our “About” statement. That may not seem like much, but to MHF, it’s a big deal. Seeking to engage the broadest...

How to Forum

If you've never used a Forum or Discussion Board, this How to Forum is for you. A few months ago when the MHF Forum launched, I was thrilled. It had been a lot of work, but even more, it's a milestone to taking back health policy. Growing conversation and...

Schizophrenic State Mental Health Policy

Should the state control mental health? The correct answer is, “Only if you believe in putting schizophrenics in charge of the asylum.” It’s becoming ever more clear that mental health will be what the state says it is, as long as the state pays for it, regulates it,...

Health Sharing: Why a State Tax Deduction

As states clean up Medicaid rolls, a tax break for health sharing could benefit residents and focus the troubled program on its mission. Medicaid “churn” is back Since the federal government removed COVID restrictions, state Medicaid is once again required to prove...

Red Flags in Organ Donation

When I took a Gift of Life class back in the 1990s, the principles seemed sound. I displayed the pin with those from Nurses Christian Fellowship and Right to Life. Twenty years later, Michigan passed the bill for free-standing organ procurement center. I felt uneasy...

Celebrate Nurses Week!

If you're looking for a special way to celebrate Nurses' Week this year, factor in healthcare freedom. Let's start with the reasons. Three great reasons to Celebrate Nurses Week 2023: You probably know at least one nurse, or are related to one. If you are one yourself...

Rejecting IBT: one year in

June 1 will mark one year into Michigan’s mandated Implicit Bias Training (IBT) for all licensed healthcare workers. Back then, I called the IBT mandate immoral, unconstitutional, and tyrannical. Now that they've experienced the "training," professionals who pride...

Workshop: From Headlines to Health Policy Change

MHF Workshop coming up! To most of us, health policy sounds remote, complicated, and boring. We hope healthcare will get better, but honestly - we'd rather someone else dealt with it. COVID is over, so we're fine, right? Nothing could be farther from the truth....