Tagged: Michigan Medicaid

Lansing - Gov. Rick Snyder will fire the first shot in the next health care skirmish Thursday when he recommends in his budget presentation to the Legislature whether Michigan should open Medicaid to as many as half a million more residents.

MICHIGAN - Most doctors in Michigan have the ability to take more patients into their practices and would accept new Medicaid patients, according to survey data. The results of the survey by the Ann Arbor-based Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation counters a key question about expanding Medicaid: whether a physician shortage leaves the system unable to handle the thousands of people in Michigan who would gain coverage and have better access to care.