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A Community Expands Access To Health Care: The Case Of Access Health In Michigan

Access Health, a Michigan-based "three-share plan," is viewed as a successful community-based approach to expanding health benefits in the workplace. It was the stimulus for recently proposed legislation to federally fund similar plans nationally. The program evolved with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Its sustained viability is attributable in part to the creative use of a state statute to draw down federal Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) funds. Although it faces obstacles common to programs of its type, the program’s greatest financial vulnerability rests on the uncertain continued availability of the monies it uses to subsidize the program.

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