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Tag: Federal Control

Better Choices?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Mon Nov 07, 2011 at 09:04:33 AM EST
Tags: Obamacare, Snyder, Jim Marleau, Michigan, Health Care Exchanges, Camels Nose, Federal Control, Implementing, Insurance, Forced, Mandates, Unconstitutional, Republicans (all tags)

Governor Snyder has had an opportunity to join with 26 other states in repudiating the destruction of our health care by the liar in chief and a capitulating congress.

But he has done nothing of the sort.

And while our attorney general Bill Schuette is supposedly fighting against Obamacare as unconstitutional, we have a Snyder enabler Jim Marleau pushing for the finishing touches on the insurance exchanges.

The bottom line is that Obamacare requires every citizen to purchase government approved health insurance under penalty of law, beginning in 2014. Key to enforcing the "Individual Mandates," are federally-regulated health insurance exchanges, which will be set up in each state to facilitate the sale of this mandated insurance.

The law gives states the option to set up an exchange or have the federal government do it for them. Some states (and Legislators) mistakenly believe that if they set up an exchange, they will preserve state control over the exchange. However, Washington bureaucrats will be at the controls regardless of whether the exchange is state or federally established.

Have REPUBLICAN State Senator Jim Marleau tell the feds to take their crappy mandate and shove it where the prostate test goes.

JimMarleau@senate.michigan.gov (248) 724-2442

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