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Busy month at MDHHS. Interesting to see the development since this presser in early December.
Follow the money! AAP's presser announcing its suit against HHS, filing dated Christmas Eve.
Result: a 90% reduction in pork. MichCapCon tracked this and other procedural changes, and reports here on the impact of public awareness.
Two more meetings this year reviewed spending items.
This committee met back in June with a different agenda. This presentation may relate to some of the many MDHHS wealth-redistribution efforts.
Note the reference to city management and fraud: "It's not just Detroit." I wonder if anyone has looked at Michigan's regulatory costs for municipal...
This committee's final hearing listed LiHEAP change first. Other health policy bills are addressed in the next post.
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