Medicaid Expansion – Michigan

Medicaid enrollment to open April 1 despite early roadblocks, By Robin Erb, March 20, 2014, Detroit Free Press: “Michigan’s long-awaited new Medicaid program — one that may extend health care coverage to 470,000 people — will open as planned at 12:01 a.m. April 1, despite bureaucratic and technical frustrations that had left thousands wondering whether the promise of the 2010 Affordable Care Act had left them behind. Expecting a heavy first burst of applications, offices for the Michigan Department of Human Services will extend hours during the first days and phone lines will open from 8 a.m. to midnight to accept applications to the program, called Healthy Michigan…”