MICHIGAN JOINS WITH MANY OTHER STATES, WILL NOT SET UP A STATE-RUN HEALTH EXCHANGE

Rep. James "Jase" Bolger ^ | 11/29/2012

[taildragger]

LANSING – Speaker of the House Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, issued the following statement regarding this morning’s Health Policy Committee vote on a state-run health exchange:

“It was my hope the committee would find that a state-run exchange afforded us more control over the unacceptable over-reach by the federal government regarding the health care of Michigan citizens. After due diligence, however, it is clear that there were too many unanswered questions for the committee to feel comfortable with a state-run exchange and we will not have one in Michigan. I applaud Committee Chair Gail Haines for her leadership and the large amount of testimony and discussion she welcomed on this issue. I know her focus never wavered from what is best for Michigan’s citizens.

“The committee apparently was not able to get the answers to key questions or receive assurances about major concerns regarding costs for Michigan taxpayers, the ability to adopt a model the federal government wouldn’t ultimately control or the ability to protect religious freedom for Michigan citizens. Because the committee could not be assured that a state exchange was the best way to protect Michigan’s citizens, it is understandable why they did not approve the bill.”

[JustaCowgirl]

I haven’t looked at statistics, so I could be wrong. But I suspect registered Democrats still outnumber registered Republicans in the state of Oklahoma. It would be because a lot of them have been voters for 30 to 40 years, and they don’t change their registration. Oklahoma is historically conservative Democrat, like a lot of Southern and Western states.

[republicangel]

From what I’ve read, if all (or most) of the states reject the exchanges, Obamacare will collapse on itself like a black hole. HAHAHA They didn’t expect it and didn’t make contingency plans.