{"id":223106,"date":"2025-10-14T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/223106\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:01:08","slug":"how-michigan-aims-to-maintain-medicaid-funding-amid-changing-u-s-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/223106\/","title":{"rendered":"How Michigan aims to maintain Medicaid funding amid changing U.S. landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Michigan seeks to preserve existing Medicaid funding\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VXJ2R47AUFAQNPCOSHB7HLU3FU.JPG\"\/>Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, shown in this September file photo, recently signed a bill seeking to preserve existing funding for Medicaid. (MLive file photo)(Devin Anderson-Torrez | MLive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UKJXRNXY3ND2NOT3JV6BVUPZME\">Michigan is aiming to preserve existing Medicaid access and funding in the short term. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3DWJ65HJPREB7LEC5RLAGLIKII\">New legislation, signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, instructs the state Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to request a waiver to continue assessing a tax on insurers to help pay for the state\u2019s share of Medicaid expenses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, shown in this September file photo, recently signed a bill seeking to preserve existing funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-223106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}