There are a few things Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette doesn't want to talk about in his run for governor. Like his fights against marriage equality and abortion access and transgender people’s access to bathrooms and, of course, his big, long fight against the Affordable Care Act. Oh, and that guy in the White House, what’s his name again?
Schuette has backtracked on his once-ironclad stance against all things Obamacare. He now says he won’t fight the state’s expansion of Medicaid known as Healthy Michigan that’s extended health care to more than 650,000 Michigan residents, saying: “The fact is Healthy Michigan is the law.”
He’s also fending off Democratic attacks for backing Republican plans in Congress that critics said would deny health care to those with pre-existing conditions. Schuette insists he’s always favored preserving coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, even has he urged courts to repeal the ACA, which provides those protections. And after winning the Republican primary in which he touted President Trump’s endorsement at every opportunity, Schuette has hardly mentioned the president this fall.
Just another Republican running on lies to fool voters.
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