KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – An advocacy group that says it’s “fed up with a lack of access to healthcare and skyrocketing costs” plans to deliver boxes of signatures to the Kalamazoo City Clerk Wednesday to place a local health care initiative on the November ballot.
The group Community Action Michigan says if approved by voters, the ballot proposal will create a local Healthcare Action Plan that they say will “bring down healthcare costs and expand access to affordable care.”
A similar ballot proposal was submitted in Benton Harbor this week. The group reportedly is also hoping to put the issue on the ballot in Lansing, East Lansing, Portage, and Battle Creek.
According to the proposal, Citizens’ Advisory Healthcare Action Committees would have to meet every two years and produce a Healthcare Action Plan that assesses health care affordability in each city and how policies at all levels of government are impacting residents. They would require cities to “hold multiple community forums” every year to “first-hand accounts of community members’ ability to afford and access” health care, along with forums discussing policy.
According to the website Bridge Michigan, in collecting voter signatures Community Action Michigan is also attacking Congressmen Bill Huizenga of Holland and Tom Barrett of Charlotte, two Republicans facing significant Democratic challenges as they seek re-election this fall.
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