Michigan Healthcare Freedom Forum

Welcome to the MHF Community Forum. Our goal is to bridge two growing divides:

1. between Michigan citizens and state policy-makers, and
2. between patient/family and clinicians.

Understanding across the deep divisions may take time, and your perspective is important. Please join the conversation and explain what you see from your spot in the healthcare freedom space.

This Thread has a broad-overview Healthcare Freedom Bookshelf. Other Threads in the Forum have pinned topical Resource posts. 

Rules:
Membership is focused on Michigan. Non-residents may join as well.
Please do your best to post within relevant threads for clear conversation.
Common courtesy is expected to include articulate disagreement and clean language. Violators and/or posts may be removed without warning.
Rules may change at any time. It's up to members to review them periodically.

Medicaid is the hot topic of the year, and probably the decade. 
Abused by political agendas, industry fraud, state machinations for federal dollars, and central planners collecting health data and controlling local care. 
It's in the courts, many state AG offices, and of course MDHHS, state insurance contracts, and state bills. 
It raises biblical questions of how best to care for our neighbors, and constitutional issues of government's role in securing individual rights to life, liberty, and property.
Written as federal law, administered by states. Funded by both, it dominates budgets at both levels, to say nothing of national debt and local sustainability. The Trump administration is the immediate cause of Medicaid disruption, but it has been a long time coming.
For all these reasons, we'll post future Medicaid-related information in this thread. To save lost links, we won't move past posts. There are many! However, they may be linked or searched.

Tools here help you engage Michigan health policy bills.
Working definition: it's a health policy bill if it regulates or pays people/ organizations/ industries that do, pay for, supply, or regulate care.
Post bills, votes, your thoughts, comments, and reports about current Michigan bills.

DIFS (Department of Insurance and Financial Services) - regulates health insurance, licenses insurance agents.
https://www.michigan.gov/difs/

LEO (Labor and Economic Opportunity) - regulates healthcare employement, including unions and the right to work.
https://www.michigan.gov/leo/

What's good or bad going on in your area?