Health Care
Currently, 1.1 million Michiganders are still without health care coverage, and many more with insurance are worried that their employers could reduce or drop coverage at any time. Rebekah recognizes that health care is a major challenge that will need to be addressed if Michigan is to be successful in revitalizing our economy and attracting new employers to our great state. She is committed to using her tenure in office to advocate for a single-payer health care system, ensuring that all of Michigan’s families have access to benefits.
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Throughout Rebekah’s first term in office, she has helped to advance the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), introducing two resolutions (House Resolution 50 and House Concurrent Resolution 6) to urge Congress to reauthorize the program, and traveling to Washington D.C. to lobby on Michigan’s behalf. She has also worked to protect state Medicaid funding, ensuring that some of our most vulnerable children and young adults have access to quality healthcare. |
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As the former Executive Director of MARAL Pro-Choice Michigan, Rebekah knows the importance of prevention when it comes to comprehensive healthcare. That’s why she has worked to protect our workers by co-sponsoring legislation to require a smoke-free workplace (House Bill 4163) and fought to fully fund the Healthy Michigan Fund, which provides critical preventative care services such as cancer screenings and diabetes education. It is also why she has co-sponsored legislation that requires insurance companies to cover mental health and substance abuse treatment in the same way they would cover other medical treatment (House Bills 4390, 4391, 4392, and 4393). |
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Committed to protecting both our health and our environment, she has co-sponsored a bill to ban the use of lead in children's toys and lunchboxes (House Bill 4240), and as Chair of the Great Lakes and Environment Committee, moved legislation to prohibit the sale or use of human lice treatments containing lindane, a hazardous toxin (House Bill 4569). |
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