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Healthy Michigan plan is on track for enrollee sign-up

Groceries, including milk, eggs and produce, sitting on a counter.
Lindsey Smith
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Michigan Radio
Officials display the healthy food low income parents could buy through the pilot program.

The federal health care exchange for private insurance under the Affordable Care Act closed on March 31. 

The very next day, the attention turned to Healthy Michigan, the state's expanded Medicaid system for some 477,000 low-income Michiganders.

It looks like the state's Healthy Michigan plan is on track for enrollee sign-up.

Don Hazaert is the director of Michigan Consumers for health care, which helps people sign up for the coverage.

*Listen to the full interview above. 

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