Past and present Governor candidates from Michigan: on Health Care


Abdul El-Sayed: Supports universal healthcare

Our state must ensure that Michiganders have access to healthcare without worries--about premiums, coverage, or the GOP's latest antics. Creating a viable public healthcare program for Michigan is crucial to ensuring that we can care for our families. That is why my administration would fight for public insurance to provide affordable healthcare access to every Michigander.
Source: 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial website AbdulForMichigan.com Nov 1, 2017

Gretchen Whitmer: Support Medicaid expansion

I led negotiations to expand access to healthcare to more than 630,000 Michiganders through the state's Medicaid expansion. We must keep fighting to address the cost of health care and lower the cost of prescription drugs until everyone has access to an affordable health plan and can afford their treatment.
Source: 2018 Michigan Gubernatorial website GretchenWhitmer.com Nov 1, 2017

Marcia Squier: Universal single-payer healthcare is the way to go

Q: What do you think about healthcare?

A: I really feel the move for single pay, in other words universal healthcare, Medicare for all, public option, all of those are the same thing and I think those are the way to go.

Source: YouTube video "Within Reason": 2018 Michigan governor race Mar 19, 2017

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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    Gubernatorial candidates from Michigan.
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Candidates and political leaders on Health Care:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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