Yet another universal healthcare proposal at the state level; and once again the details are sketchy. The good news is that the politicians are finally beginning to act. It remains to be seen whether the solutions they're coming up with will have any real benefit, or will end up simply feeding the bottom lines of the private insurers.
Granholm proposes health care coverage
Mark Hornbeck / Detroit News Lansing Bureau
LANSING -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm unveiled a universal health care plan for Michigan Thursday designed to cover all 1.1 million state residents who are currently uninsured.
The proposal, patterned after a law recently passed in Massachusetts, is an expansion of a plan announced in January that would provide heath coverage to the 550,000 Michiganians below 200 percent of the poverty level -- which is $38,700 for a family of four.
Her new plan also would offer health care insurance to the working poor above that level who don't have coverage. The state would subsidize premiums on a sliding scale depending on family income. It's uncertain how much participants would have to pay. ...
The Michigan plan would mirror the Massachusetts version in providing coverage to the uninsured but, unlike Massachusetts, residents would not be required to have health insurance.
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