Off-kilter With Rebecca Vallas

This week on Off-Kilter, the Republican war on Medicaid has now made its way to Michigan, in the form of what may be the most heartless “work requirements” proposal yet — which passed Michigan’s Republican-controlled Senate on a party line vote last week. Rebecca talks with two experts at the University of Michigan: Luke Shaefer, the director of poverty solutions and a professor of public policy, and one of the authors of $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, and Marianne Udow-Phillips, a former head of human services for the state of Michigan and currently the director of the Center for Health Care Research and Transformation. Next, Rebecca speaks with Michigan State Senator Curtis Hertel Jr., a Democrat who made waves by introducing an amendment that would make his colleagues in the State Senate jump through the same hoops they want to make struggling Michiganders jump through to keep their healthcare. Later in the show, with the debate around so-called “work requirements” and other proposals to s