Fact Sheets & Reports
- Caregivers Without Health Care: Michigan (pdf)
- This analysis (pdf) looks at how well three options proposed by the Models Development Workgroup (pdf) of the Michigan State Planning Project for the Uninsured would serve direct-care workers.
- When Michigan’s Caregivers Lack Coverage: Findings from a Survey of Michigan’s Home Help Workforce (pdf)
- Beyond Reach? Findings from the Michigan Long-Term Care Employers Survey (pdf)
Michigan First Health Care Plan
- Marketing Michigan First (pdf)
- Comments Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of Community Health (pdf) HCHCW’s analysis of the proposed Michigan First legislation.
- Suggestions and Comments (pdf) from HCHCW about SB 278 (pdf), the bill that would create a board to run Michigan First
- HCHCW’s comments (pdf) on the first draft of SB 278 (pdf), the bill that would create a board to run Michigan First
From the State
- Long Term Care Task Force: Navigating through the options (pdf). This report to the governor identifies health care coverage for direct-care workers as one key to improving the quality of long-term care services.
- Characteristics of the Uninsured and Select Health Insurance Coverage in Michigan: Non-elderly population (pdf)
- For more reports on Michigan’s uninsured, see the Data and Reports section of the State Planning Project for the Uninsured website.
Other Reports
- Voices from the Front: Recruitment and retention of direct care workers across Michigan (pdf). About half of the nursing home workers and three-fourths of the home health workers in this survey have no health insurance coverage through their employers.
- A Labor of Love: Assessing the status of the direct care workforce in the tri-county area (pdf). Only 21 percent of the workers in this survey have employer-based health insurance. Lack of benefits was one of four major sources of job satisfaction named.
- Long-Term Care in Michigan: A survey of voters Age 45+ (pdf). In this AARP survey, Michigan voters showed overwhelming support for health care coverage for direct-care workers.
- Paying for Quality Care: State and local strategies for improving wages and benefits for personal care assistants (pdf). This major national report from the AARP Public Policy Institute includes a section on HCHCW’s work in Michigan.
- Michigan’s Care Gap: Our emerging direct-care workforce crisis (pdf)
- Testimony (pdf) by Hollis Turnham of HCHCW Michigan to the House of Representatives Appropriations Sub-Committee
Legislation & Regulations
- The Michigan First Healthcare Plan
- Michigan First MI Heart Legislation (pdf). The bill that would create a board to run Michigan First
- Individual Market Reform Bills
Finding Health Care Coverage
For Adults
MEDICAID – To qualify for Medicaid in Michigan as an adult, you must be either pregnant, blind, or over 65 or have a disability that keeps you from working. If one or more of those conditions applies to you, please contact your local Department of Human Services office.
OTHER PROGRAMS – If you don’t qualify for Medicaid, your county may offer other coverage. Please contact your local program to find out whether either of the options below is available and whether you are eligible. They can also tell you what coverage is offered, since benefits vary.
- Adult Benefit Waiver. Several Michigan counties offer basic health care coverage for low-income individuals. The Adult Benefit Waiver is open to individuals whose incomes are less than 35 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL), or $298 per month.
- County Health Plan Coverage. Several counties also offer what is called the Plan B program. This covers individuals who have incomes of less than 150 percent of FPL, or $1,282 per month.
For Children
Medicaid’s MIChild and Healthy Kids programs are available for all children age 19 or under who live in Michigan families with incomes of 200 percent or less of the federal poverty level.
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