Rheingans to host city halls after reintroducing public well being care laws
State Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) is reintroducing a 2022 effort to create a publicly funded well being care system for Michigan residents.
“The system that now we have has been failing us. For years, now we have heard from the healthcare trade that with a number of competing payers, the market will course appropriate every time prices get too excessive or advantages are restricted. Yr after 12 months, we hear this, however we nonetheless haven’t seen it. We’d like a special manner ahead,” Rheingans mentioned in a press release.
Rheingans’ invoice, Home Invoice 4893, is equivalent to a different invoice launched throughout the earlier Republican-led legislature, Home Invoice 5966, which might create a publicly funded well being system utilizing a mixture of personal and public suppliers to supply complete bodily, dental and psychological well being care with out deductibles, copays or premiums.
In accordance with a press release from Rheingans’ workplace, 1.3 million Michiganders had a mixed whole of $800 million in medical debt final 12 months. Rheingans’ workplace mentioned this publicly funded system would save Michiganders cash by chopping down on administrative prices and treating well being care without any consideration quite than a for-profit trade.
Representatives from the Michigan Common Well being Care Entry Community, Michigan Single Payer Healthcare and the Michigan Nurses Affiliation shared their help for the invoice, which will likely be out there to learn on-line on July 18.
“Everybody deserves entry to well being care — and meaning everybody, not simply individuals who can afford it,” Jamie Brown, president of the Michigan Nurses Affiliation, mentioned in a press release. “Nurses see the heartbreaking price of our damaged system day by day: Too many individuals of all ages are going with out, or delaying, desperately wanted well being care. [This new system] will save lives and make Michigan a a lot more healthy, stronger state.”
Over the summer season, Rheingans plans to host a sequence of city halls throughout the state the place Michigan residents can share their experiences with the well being care system and what they wish to see sooner or later.
“I ran for this workplace to make common well being care a actuality for Michiganders. I cannot cease preventing for common, inexpensive well being care, even when it takes the remainder of my time within the legislature,” Rheingans mentioned.
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