Blog - Michigan Healthcare Freedom

Compacts Threaten to Globalize Michigan Healthcare

Recent Michigan bill hearings on Physical and Occupational Therapy licensing compacts further advance globalization of healthcare. In addition, a Physician Assistant compact bill is reportedly back in the legislature. Centralized control of professional licensing...

State of Michigan vs. Mental Health Innovators

The State of Michigan’s propensity to control everything is coming back to haunt mental health care, leading to surprising voices for healthcare freedom. Chronic State Meddling in Mental Health Market Michigan’s community mental health services programs, run by MDHHS,...

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 I

If you've never used a Forum or Discussion Board, this How to Forum is for you. (Check out How to Forum II if you're looking for tips to find specific posts.) A few months ago when the MHF Forum launched, I was thrilled. It had been a lot of work, but even more, it's...

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.” Clearly, mental health care will be what the state says it is, as long as the state pays for it, regulates it, decides who may...

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...