Group looks to put health care initiative on the November ballot in Kalamazoo

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…

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