Michigan Democratic Party attacks Bill Schuette on health care
The Michigan Democratic Party is accusing Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette of hypocrisy for telling people as he campaigns for governor that he supports insurance coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, given that as attorney general he joined suits to strike down the Affordable Care Act, which includes those protections.
Truth Squad finds the claim overheated, but fair.
The claim: “Now that Bill Schuette’s disastrous healthcare agenda is becoming a major campaign issue, he is trying to claim that he will ‘make sure you have coverage for pre-existing conditions,’” the Michigan Democratic Party wrote in a recent news release. “However, the truth is Schuette spent years filing lawsuits to rip healthcare away from people with pre-existing conditions and is refusing to stand up to the Trump Administration’s ongoing attempt to take their coverage away.”
At a late August campaign stop in Ottawa County, Schuette told a crowd: “I want to make sure you have coverage for pre-existing conditions.”
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