| A couple of days ago, Bill Schuette had an Op-Ed in the Detroit News in which he wrote that Michigan shouldn't create a health care exchange, which would benefit Michigan people who wish to shop around for health care insurance, on the grounds that come November they might yet repeal all of the health care reform and not have to worry about Uncle Scary Fed-rankenstein and his dictums that government -- as an expression of collective will -- can compel states to set up health care exchanges or impose it's cookie-cutter variant. I thought about posting something about it, but if I blogged about every press release from every candidate for office, I'd never get time to drink the gin I so dearly love. Anyway, a few months ago, Schuette took a break from campaigning for governor to -- as part of his day job, file a lawsuit over the contraceptive requirement in health care reform. That's the bit in the law where insurance packages are required to provide contraceptive programs for women, and where Schuette and other Republicans warned are an intrusion into the religious rights of individuals by prohibiting institutions from dictating religious values through health insurance. It's a dumb argument, but your typical Republican primary voter anymore is a low-information voter and prone to being easily duped by dumb arguments. A federal judge yesterday tossed the lawsuit. |
