LANSING — Today marks the anniversary of Trump celebrating the 2018 ruling that threatened to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. Mike Rogers, Peter Meijer, and Sandy Pensler all support Trump’s call to gut health care access, which would result in millions of Michiganders being denied care or losing health insurance and increase costs for Michiganders.
Here’s where candidates in Michigan’s Senate GOP primary stand on revoking affordable health care access:
- Mike Rogers voted against the Affordable Care Act when he was in Congress. In response to the 2012 Supreme Court ruling on the ACA, Rogers called the law “disastrous” saying “we must redouble our efforts to change leadership in the U.S. Senate and the White House to undo this burdensome Obama health care tax.”
- Peter Meijer signed a pledge to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act in 2020.
- Sandy Pensler called the Affordable Care Act a “disaster” and said he’d repeal the law.
A repeal of the Affordable Care Act means “1.3 million Michiganders would lose their insurance and about 1.8 million with pre-existing health conditions could lose critical protections.”
See for yourself:
The Gander: Republican Senate candidates vow to take away health insurance from 1.3 million Michiganders
- Three Republican candidates running for a chance to represent Michigan in the US Senate have each voiced support for repealing the Affordable Care Act, a move which would lead to millions of Michiganders being denied care or potentially losing coverage altogether.
- Among them: Former US Reps. Mike Rogers and Peter Meijer; and Detroit-area businessman Sandy Pensler—all of whom are candidates in next year’s Republican primary election for US Senate.
- Last month, former President Donald Trump—who spent his first term trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act—once again attacked the popular legislation, noting that he was “seriously looking at alternatives.”
- During his time in Congress, Rogers voted against the passage of the Affordable Care Act. And in 2012, he vowed to “redouble” efforts to elect more Republicans who also wanted to gut the legislation which, at the time, he labeled as a “disastrous law.”
- …Meijer has vowed to support the former president’s renewed efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, if elected. In 2020, he signed a pledge to do just that.
- And just like Rogers, Pensler has also labeled the Affordable Care Act as a “disaster” and made it clear that he wouldn’t think twice about repealing the law if he was elected to Congress.
- Repealing the Affordable Care Act would rip away healthcare insurance from nearly 40 million Americans who get coverage through the ACA marketplace or its Medicaid expansion and enable insurance companies to once again deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions.
- In Michigan, about 1.3 million people would lose their insurance and about 1.8 million with pre-existing health conditions could lose critical protections, federal estimates show.
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