The Michigan Reform Plan
Lower costs. Rebuild Michigan.
Put working families first.
Michigan can lead again — but not with politics as usual.
For too long, families have been asked to work harder while getting less in return. Healthcare costs rise. Housing slips further out of reach. Schools are stretched thin. Roads, power systems, and supply chains fall behind. And too many people feel like government responds faster to donors, lobbyists, and special interests than to the people who actually build this state.
The Michigan Reform Plan is a full, connected strategy to change that.
It is a plan to lower the cost of living, rebuild public systems, strengthen democracy, create good jobs, and give working families more control over their future.
This is not a collection of isolated ideas. It is one coordinated plan to make Michigan more affordable, more capable, more democratic, and more secure.
Michigan Is Being Squeezed From
Every Direction
Families are under pressure from every side at once.
Healthcare is too expensive. Prescription prices stay high. Rent and home prices keep rising. Public schools face staffing shortages and uneven resources. Major industries are changing fast, but too many workers and communities are left without a clear path forward. Infrastructure still fails too often. Utility bills rise while aging systems remain vulnerable. And trust in government has eroded as people watch public institutions move too slowly or serve the wrong priorities.
These problems are connected.
That means the solution has to be connected too.
Michigan does not need one more narrow program. Michigan needs a governing plan big enough to match the scale of the challenge.
One Plan. Seven Major Reforms.
The Michigan Reform Plan brings together seven major initiatives that work as one:
1. MI-Care
A public healthcare plan designed to guarantee affordable care, reduce medical debt, and make healthcare a source of security instead of fear.
2. MI-Meds
A public medicines strategy to lower prescription costs, prevent shortages, and build Michigan-based pharmaceutical capacity.
3. Michigan Energy Independence Plan
A strategy to lower long-term energy costs, modernize the grid, strengthen supply chains, and build the next generation of energy manufacturing here at home.
4. Michigan Industrial Renewal Plan
A plan to rebuild advanced manufacturing, modernize infrastructure, strengthen worker power, and make Michigan the best place in America to build.
5. Michigan Opportunity & Education Investment Plan
A cradle-to-career investment strategy covering early learning, strong public schools, workforce development, college access, retraining, and lifelong opportunity.
6. Michigan First Homes Initiative
A housing plan to lower pressure on renters, help first-time buyers, protect neighborhoods from speculation, and make homeownership possible again.
7. FAIR Plan
A democracy and accountability agenda to strengthen ethics enforcement, expand participation, protect civil liberties, and rebuild trust in public institutions.
These Reforms Are Designed to Reinforce Each Other
The strength of the Michigan Reform Plan is that each part makes the others stronger.
Lower medicine costs support affordable healthcare. Affordable healthcare gives families more stability. Stable families are better able to buy homes, go back to school, start businesses, and stay rooted in their communities.
Stronger schools and workforce pathways help Michigan lead in advanced manufacturing, clean energy, healthcare, and technology. Industrial renewal creates the jobs that make housing, education, and long-term growth more secure.
Energy modernization lowers costs for households and employers while making the state more competitive. Infrastructure investment strengthens manufacturing, logistics, and regional development. Housing reform helps workers stay in the communities where opportunity is growing.
And democracy reform helps ensure all of it stays accountable to the public.
This is what real reform looks like: not separate slogans, but a state that works together again.
The Core Goals
Every part of the Michigan Reform Plan is built around the same goals:
Goal 1 — Lower the cost of living
Reduce the pressure families face from healthcare, medicine, housing, utilities, and other basic necessities.
Goal 2 — Rebuild public systems that work
Modernize the systems people rely on every day — from schools and healthcare to roads, power, and democratic institutions.
Goal 3 — Create good jobs and stronger communities
Tie investment to job quality, workforce development, domestic production, and long-term regional strength.
Goal 4 — Put public power back on the public’s side
Make government more transparent, more competent, and more accountable to working people.
Goal 5 — Build a Michigan that can lead again
Compete nationally in healthcare reform, industrial strategy, energy modernization, education, and democratic renewal.
This Is What Governing Should Look Like
Government should solve problems people can actually feel.
It should help families afford the doctor.
It should make prescriptions cheaper.
It should help workers train for better jobs.
It should make it easier to buy a home.
It should fix the roads the right way.
It should modernize the grid.
It should strengthen schools.
It should stop treating democracy like a game for insiders.
The Michigan Reform Plan is built on a simple idea:
If people work hard, raise families, contribute to their communities, and believe in this state, government should fight just as hard for them.
That is what this plan is about.
Start Big. Deliver Early.
Build Long-Term.
The Michigan Reform Plan is designed to produce visible results early while laying the foundation for long-term change.
That means the first governing phase focuses on the biggest, clearest wins families can feel:
lowering everyday cost pressure
stabilizing key public systems
restoring trust through visible action
launching coordinated implementation instead of siloed programs
proving that public leadership can still deliver real results
The goal is not to wait years for people to feel the difference.
The goal is to act fast, act seriously, and build confidence through results.
Michigan Can Lead Again
Michigan built the middle class. Michigan built the industries that shaped the modern world. Michigan has the workers, communities, institutions, and determination to lead again.
But leadership will not come from drift. It will not come from timid half-measures. And it will not come from treating each crisis like it exists in isolation.
It will come from a plan that matches the scale of the moment.
The Michigan Reform Plan is that plan.
Signature Policy Plans
Explore the detailed policy proposals that will lower costs, strengthen communities, and build a strong economy in Michigan.
A Michigan universal healthcare plan that lowers costs, guarantees coverage, and simplifies care for families.
Manufacture essential medications at cost to stop price gouging and ensure reliable access to life-saving drugs.
Build more homes, protect renters, and make it possible for working families to afford housing again.
Rebuild Michigan’s infrastructure, strengthen domestic manufacturing, and invest in energy, transportation, and water systems to create good-paying jobs and support long-term economic growth.
Expand Michigan wind and solar power to lower utility bills and create good-paying jobs.
Invest in teachers, expand childcare and preschool, provide universal school meals, and strengthen career and skilled-trade pathways so every Michigan student can succeed.
End the influence of big money in politics with public campaign financing, stronger ethics laws, transparent government, and protections for fair elections.
Read the Full
Michigan Reform Plan
Explore the full plan, review the policy framework, and download the PDF version below.
A full governing plan to lower costs, rebuild public systems, create good jobs, and make Michigan work for working families again.
The Policy
Michigan’s Future Is Worth Fighting For
If you believe government should work for working families — not the well-connected few — join our campaign.
Together we can build a Michigan that is more affordable, more accountable, and more fair.