Michigan to Allow Health Insurance Plan Extensions

Will work with Obamacare fix

Michigan will heed President Barack Obama's call to allow state health insurers to extend policies that fail to meet requirements of the federal health care overhaul, state officials announced Friday.

Department of Insurance and Financial Services Director Ann Flood said the one-year extensions will offer more opportunities to consumers who buy their own insurance and a reprieve from policy cancellations planned on Jan. 1.