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Jarrett Skorup

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Michigan needs more nursing homes; why are we still blocking them?

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By Jarrett Skorup, Jefferey L. Degner
| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Imagine being confined to a nursing home bed, falling out and breaking a femur. When you complain of the pain, you aren’t offered any pain medication, and you have to wait 20 hours before being sent to an emergency room. This situation isn’t fiction for one Michigan-based patient. While the facility and many like it maintain a respectable online rating, inspections by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Studies paint a different picture.
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Unlock opportunity to make Michigan more affordable

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By Jarrett Skorup
| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Michigan's affordability challenge is driven by higher prices on goods and services and the inability of some people to find higher-paying jobs. A series of bills in the state Senate would make this challenge a little easier. Two to three million people in Michigan have some type of criminal record and roughly one out of every five workers needs a government license in order to work legally in his or her chosen profession.
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Michigan lawmakers push an affordability agenda

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By Jarrett Skorup, Warren Anderson
| Mackinac Center for Public Policy
| Font size: 75% 100% 125% 150% At a time of high inflation, many of the policies enacted in Michigan in recent years have made things less affordable. But there are also bills in the state House and Senate, some supported by both Republicans and Democrats, that would tackle an affordability agenda. The following bills aim to make it easier to live and work in Michigan, get rid of unnecessary regulations, and increase competition that makes prices more competitive.
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