MHA Monday Report May 25, 2026

Livonia-Westland Business Leaders Meet with MHA on Affordability

The MHA partnered with the Livonia-Westland Chamber of Commerce on May 14 to host an event at its Livonia offices to engage with business leaders about healthcare costs, listen to their needs and collaborate on …

Coverage is Care at Trinity Health Michigan

Significant changes to Medicaid are expected to take effect in 2027, bringing new requirements and processes that could increase the risk of coverage loss for eligible individuals if systems are not prepared. …

Hospitals Help: Pine Rest Launches First-of-its-Kind Pediatric Psychiatric Urgent Care

Hospitals are there in life’s most critical moments, supporting people at all walks of life and expanding access to care beyond the bedside. For children and families experiencing behavioral health crises, timely care can make …

The Keckley Report

Trump Administration Takes Aim at Healthcare: What MAGA Voters Believe

“These actions are consistent with the administration’s growing disdain for the healthcare industry as the mid-term election nears. Its gleeful rebuke of two-term Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy’s primary defeat Saturday a case in point: Cassidy chaired the Senate HELP committee and clashed with HHS Director RF Kennedy Jr. over MAHA initiatives like vaccine policies. A physician, he practiced gastroenterology with a specialty in hepatology (liver disease) before entering politics and was frequently differed with the administration’s health policies. …

The industry is on the defensive. Insurers, hospitals, home care and prescription drug sectors are considered complicit in the system’s failings.

The industry’s aware, but to date, its defense of the status quo has been ineffective. Its primary response has been a blame game against offending sectors, over-regulation and macro-economic pressures while buying time even as voter discontent grows.”

Paul Keckley, May 18, 2026