Republican Gov. Snyder Asks Congressional Delegation To Reject Obamacare Replacement

Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, has reached out to members of the state’s congressional delegation urging them to carefully consider the effect the Republican replacement plan of the Affordable Care Act might have on elderly and poor residents of the state.

Snyder wrote his letter Tuesday, the same day President Trump went to the Congress and warned lawmakers that failure to approve the Republican healthcare proposal to replace Obamacare could have consequences in the November 2018 mid-term elections.

Snyder didn’t specifically tell the delegation to vote against the plan, but said that in its current form, the American Health Care Act “shifts significant financial risk and cost from the federal government to states without providing sufficient flexibility to manage this additional responsibility.”

“The proposed legislation reduces federal resources that our state relies on to assist 2.4 million Michiganders enrolled in traditional Medicaid and the Healthy Michigan Plan, our state’s innovative Medicaid expansion program,” he wrote.

The Detroit Free Press obtained a copy of the letter to U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, which is found below. Letters to U.S. representatives from Michigan outlined the possible effects in their districts, the Free Press said.

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