Credit Tracy Samilton / Michigan Radio
Some companies that provide rehabilitation services for people catastrophically injured in car accidents are planning to shut their doors as of July 1.
That s when a 45% cut in medical reimbursements that was included in the 2019 changes to Michigan s auto insurance law takes effect. We can t absorb the 45% pay cut and stay in business, says Randal Bruce, President of Aspire Rehabilitation Services, a residential treatment center in Troy. The agency provides everything from housing to physical therapy to counseling. It s just impossible. We looked at everything we could, there s just no way to do it.
As of June 30, Aspire s 20 residents will need to find other places to live that can provide care for their traumatic injuries, and the company s 50 employees will be out of work.
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The Livingston County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution calling on Gov. Whitmer and the state health department to replace the plan currently utilized to determine vaccine allocation.
When the full Board met Monday night to discuss the resolution that came from the General Government Committee last week, it was many of the same players and opinions again protesting and supporting the decision.
County Commissioners are actively challenging the stateâs use of the CDCâs Social Vulnerability Index to determine vaccine allocations. SVI scores and ranks counties on socio-economic factors like household composition, minority status, and transportation. Age is one factor, and 6.25% of the equation. SVI rankings put Livingston County at the bottom of the ladder for vaccines coming into the county. County Commissioners argue that with senior populations being the most at-risk, a plan that takes that in