{"id":184567,"date":"2024-03-09T01:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/michigan-lawmaker-introduces-bill-requiring-state-health-plans-to-cover-cutting-edge-cancer-treatments"},"modified":"2024-03-09T01:49:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:49:04","slug":"michigan-lawmaker-introduces-bill-requiring-state-health-plans-to-cover-cutting-edge-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/michigan-lawmaker-introduces-bill-requiring-state-health-plans-to-cover-cutting-edge-cancer-treatments","title":{"rendered":"Michigan lawmaker introduces bill requiring state health plans to cover cutting-edge cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/michigan-lawmaker-introduces-bill-requiring-state-health-plans-to-cover-cutting-edge-cancer-treatments3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Michigan state senator introduced a bill that would require health insurance companies in the state to cover cutting-edge cancer treatments, even if they are not categorized as a \u201ccancer drug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-Mich.) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffMIrwin\/status\/1765054942060974416?s=20\">announced<\/a> his new bill in a video on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. The legislation would build on an existing law that already says cancer drugs must be covered by health insurance companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Michigan state senator introduced a bill that would require health insurance companies in the state to cover cutting-edge cancer treatments, even if they are not categorized as a \u201ccancer drug.\u201d State Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-Mich.) announced his new bill in a video on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. The legislation would build on an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}