Yesterday, the Senate Health Policy Committee moved closer to implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Michigan by voting in favor of Senate Bill 693 (SB 693) with both Repbublican and Democrat support. SB 693 will create Michigan’s Exchange, the MiHealth Marketplace. Although there are some concerning things in the version that was passed, we are very pleased [...]
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Michigan Consumer Coalition Urges Improvements to State Exchange Legislation
Posted on 20 October 2011.
The Michigan Consumers for Healthcare (MCH) coalition held a press conference on October 11 to announce its support for a Senate bill to establish a state health insurance exchange and to offer recommendations on how to improve the legislation. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), every state is required to create a health insurance exchange [...]
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Direct Care Workers: A Critical Part of Michigan’s Economy
Posted on 05 August 2011.
A recent Op-Ed by Charles Blow in The New York Times describes blue-collar and low-wage workers in simple yet powerful words. Direct-care workers are counted among those that he describes as, “They are honest people who do honest work — crack-the-bones work; lift-it, chop-it, empty-it, glide-it-in-smooth work; feel-the-flames-up-close work; crawl-down-in-there work — things that no [...]
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Michigan Embarks on Personal Care Aide Training
Posted on 11 December 2010.
The Michigan Office of Services to the Aging (OSA), Michigan State University-College of Human Medicine, and PHI have partnered to address the training needs of personal care aides (PCAs) who serve clients in MI Choice, the state’s Medicaid home and community-based waiver program. Michigan’s Building Training…Building Quality (BTBQ) project will build and operate a sustainable [...]
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Michigan Tax Help
Posted on 06 November 2009.
It is not too early to think about the upcoming tax season and ways that direct-care workers can get a bigger refund and keep more of their money at tax time.
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PHI Fact Sheet Examines Michigan’s Direct-Care Workforce
Posted on 24 November 2008.
PHI has released a fact sheet on Michigan’s direct-care workforce (pdf). The eight-page document reveals that while demand for workers is at a historic high and growing, the labor pool is shrinking and poor job quality is adding to the difficulty of attracting and keeping new workers. These factors, warns the fact sheet, are leading [...]
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Michigan’s Fastest Growing Workforce!
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