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Category: Michigan Government
Snyder highlights aging infrastructure, Medicaid expansion
Gov. Rick Snyder called Tuesday for addressing Michigan’s aging infrastructure over the next several decades, citing the Flint water crisis that has roiled his administration and a football field-sized sinkhole that formed recently in suburban Detroit. In his seventh annual State of the State address to lawmakers, the Republican also touted the state’s Medicaid expansion, which has provided health insurance to 600,000 low-income adults but which is in jeopardy as the GOP-led Congress seeks to repeal the federal health care law.
Michigan hospitals concerned about proposed repeal of Obamacare
Repealing the Affordable Care Act tops the agenda for Republicans after the new congress is sworn in during the first week in January. But the Michigan Health and Hospital Association is concerned what will happen if Obamacare is repealed without a replacement strategy ready to take its place.