Michigan Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in Michigan?

Michigan is ranked the 37th healthiest state in the 2012 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• During the past five years, preventable hospitalizations have declined.
• Air pollution decreased over the past five years from 12.9 to 9.5 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter.

The bad news:

• Michigan's ranking has declined sharply over the past three years.
• The percentage of children in poverty has increased sharply during the past 10 years. The rate is up from 12.4 percent to 22.7 percent.

Michigan's best and worst category rankings:

• Geographic Disparity – 12th
• Lack of Health Insurance – 14th
• Sedentary Lifestyle – 15th
• Occupational Fatalities – 15th
• Infectious Disease – 42nd
• Immunization Coverage – 44th
• Obesity – 46th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Michigan.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Michigan health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts Michigan here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Michigan, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Does Michigan have a health insurance high risk pool?

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, Michigan started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about Michigan's participation, click here.

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black. In the best cases, they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.

Non-profit sources of health insurance information for Michigan

• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's mission is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Here is its guide on how to find health insurance in Michigan.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for Michigan can be found here.
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers. Search for Michigan health insurance plan report cards.

Michigan state government health insurance resources

Michigan Patient Rights and Responsibilities —  Knowing your rights and how to exercise them is the first step toward being a better consumer in today’s health insurance market.

MIChild —  PDF explaining the state’s health insurance program for uninsured children of working families. MIChild services are provided by many HMOs and other health care plans throughout Michigan.

PDF guide to discount health plans (not insurance) —  Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Services provides a publication discussing plans which provide discounts for those without insurance when purchasing health services.

Michigan Department of Community Health —  Information and links provided by the state’s department responsible for community health issues.

Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs —  Health insurance publications offered by the State of Michigan.

How did Michigan officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

#14

Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (9)

• Justin Amash
• Dan Benishek
• David Camp
• Bill Huizenga
• Thaddeus McCotter

• Candice Miller
• Michael Rogers
• Frederick Upton
• Timothy Walberg

Our
Pick

No (6)

• Hansen Clarke
• John Conyers
• John Dingell
• Dale Kildee
• Sander Levin

• Gary Peters