LANSING -- Legislation has been passed that is designed to help consumers and small businesses purchase health insurance.
Governor Rick Snyder’s office reports the bill creates the MiHealth Marketplace, an online marketplace that will help make it easier for small companies to get health insurance in 2014.
“I applaud senators for taking this innovative step on this critical issue,” Snyder said in a written release Thursday. “This nonprofit entity emphasizes free-market principles that will better manage health care costs and increase competition among insurers. It will ensure that government does not expand its reach. It will be run like a business not a bureaucracy. Michigan needs to act quickly so the state isn’t forced to accept the federal government’s ‘one-size-fits all approach’ to health care reform. We understand the unique needs of our consumers and businesses. Michigan should decide its own health care future.”
