2018 MI Governor's race: on Health Care
Bill Schuette:
Replace ObamaCare with private insurance
Q: Support or Repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? Accept Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants? Bill Schuette (R): Repeal ACA. Replace with private insurance. "ACA violated the very first principal of medicine: Do no harm."
Has called to cut state's Medicaid expansion, now says settled law. Calls Medicaid work requirements "the welfare reform of the 21st century."
Gretchen Whitmer (D): Supports ACA. Opposes work requirements for Medicaid; "we should be expanding."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Michigan Governor race
Oct 9, 2018
Gretchen Whitmer:
No work requirements for Medicaid; expand it instead
Q: Support or Repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? Accept Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants? Require people to work to receive Medicaid?Bill Schuette (R): Repeal ACA. Replace with private insurance. Calls work requirements "the
welfare reform of the 21st century."
Gretchen Whitmer (D): Supports ACA. Held "Save Healthcare" rallies and led state Senate negotiations for Medicaid expansion. Opposes work requirements, which remove coverage "when we should be expanding."
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Michigan Governor race
Oct 9, 2018
Bill Schuette:
End Medicaid expansion and put in work requirement
[MR]: You want to roll back the Medicaid expansion. So for the hundreds of thousands who managed to get themselves health insurance, what would you do for them?[BS]: "The fact is the federal funds were not indefinite. Mike Shirkey and I are working
together on putting a requirement in of a work requirement for Medicaid. It's an important cultural requirement that you further reinforce the significance of work. And it would be a more efficient government and save the state and taxpayers money.
Source: MichiganRadio.org on 2018 Michigan gubernatorial race
May 24, 2018
Abdul El-Sayed:
Public health suffers when you run government as a business
El-Sayed said his background as the former director of the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion will have a large impact on his candidacy, as it gave him a more intimate and open look into public health. He said his unconventional
background will help Michigan stray from "politics as usual," which he believes is a mindset that hasn't been working. "It's not just public health that suffers when you run government as a business," he added. "It's also things like public education."
Source: MI Daily Staff on 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial race
Mar 13, 2017
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