LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Precisely 25% of Ingham County residents depend on Medicaid, a 2023 Georgetown research revealed.
Michigan’s most populous county, Wayne County, and residential of Detroit, had the biggest enrollment in Medicaid at 34.4%. Livingston County and Oakland County have the bottom charges of Medicaid enrollment at 16.8%.
Medicaid has been within the information recently after Donald Trump’s ‘Huge, Lovely Invoice’ plans to make vital cuts to it. He signed it into regulation on July 4. The invoice seeks to chop $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following 10 years. Cuts to Medicaid aren’t anticipated to take impact till 2027, after the midterm elections.
Counties in Mid-Michigan have the next charges of Medicaid protection:
Ingham County: 25%
Jackson County: 24.1%
Shiawassee County: 22.1%
Ionia County: 22%
Eaton County: 20.6%
Clinton County: 19.5%
Livingston County: 16.8%
The cuts will largely be seen within the look of labor necessities. The invoice would require Medicaid enrollees to work not less than 80 hours monthly and submit them via a web-based portal each month. This system makes use of Georgia as a mannequin for work necessities, however the state has but to see charges of labor improve, and Medicaid enrollments have decreased.
Michigan enacted a piece requirement regulation in 2018 beneath then-Gov. Rick Snyder, nevertheless it was dominated unlawful by a federal choose in 2020, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer eradicated the regulation earlier this yr.
