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Lansing, Mich. – Americans for Prosperity-Michigan today applauded the Senate’s passage of legislation that will roll back Certificate of Need (CON) regulations on key health care services, including psychiatric beds, air ambulance and covered capital expenditures. Annie Patnaude, state director for the grassroots group, issued the following statement: “The Senate took a bold step today to improve health […]
LANSING, MI – Americans for Prosperity- Michigan (AFP-MI) joined a broad coalition in thanking the Senate for passing a resolution barring Michigan’s Marijuana Regulatory Agency from forcing cannabis businesses to unionize as a condition of their licensure. Americans for Prosperity-Michigan State Director, Annie Patnaude, issued the following statement: “Lawmakers were right to pass this resolution. […]
AFP-Illinois, bipartisan coalition thank Governor Pritzker for signing License to Work Act into law Springfield, Ill – Americans for Prosperity-Illinois (AFP-IL) joined advocates and leaders from across Illinois in thanking Governor Pritzker for signing the License to Work Act into law. The legislation ends the misguided practice of suspending a person’s driver’s licenses for non-driving […]
LANSING, Michigan – Americans for Prosperity-Michigan (AFP-MI) announced its support for recommendations offered in a report released today from the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration. The grassroots group supports the work by the task force to analyze jails across Michigan and develop legislative recommendations for consideration during the 2020 session. Americans […]
Your Christmas present from Congress has just arrived – two omnibus spending bills with “something for everyone to like.” But really, they are a massive, expensive lump of coal. As Congress has seen fit to do so many times in the past, these spending bills were left until the last minute, forcing a scramble to […]
The Michigan state legislature late Wednesday overturned restrictions imposed by regulators on access to cancer immunotherapy already approved by the FDA and covered by Medicare – a vote welcomed by Americans for Prosperity. The move reverses a decision last month by the state’s Certificate of Need Commission (CON) to require providers of immune effector cell […]
Lansing, Mich. – Patients won today: That was the message Americans for Prosperity-Michigan issued on the heels of the passage of a Joint Resolution that overturns excessive regulations placed on cancer immunotherapy by the unelected and unaccountable Certificate of Need (CON) board. Annie Patnaude, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Michigan, issued the following statement: “Thanks to the courageous work of […]
LANSING, Mich. – Americans for Prosperity-Michigan offered its strong support for a package of bills introduced in the House Judiciary Committee today that would automate and expand the state’s expungement process for people with certain misdemeanor and felony offenses. The grassroots group has joined a broad coalition of organizations backing the bill package and says […]
Lansing, Mich. – Americans for Prosperity-Michigan today called for a public hearing following a move by the State Certificate of Need Commission (CON) to extend its regulatory powers to innovative cancer treatment known as chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR T for short). AFP-MI State Director, Annie Patnaude issued the following statement: “It’s alarming that an […]
