Governing Magazine: ‘Health Policy Could Veer Far to the Right’ Under Schuette
In case you missed it, a report from Governing Magazine this week detailed how Bill Schuette’s disastrous plan to gut Medicaid expansion is on the ballot in Michigan’s race for governor, writing:
“The midterms come at a crucial time for health care… Michigan is one expansion state where health policy could veer far to the right if the Republican nominee for governor, Bill Schuette, wins what is considered a tossup race.”

This report comes as Bill Schuette is running for governor on a promise to help the Trump Administration dismantle Healthy Michigan — even though it provides healthcare for 680,000 Michiganders.
When asked directly if he would keep Healthy Michigan, Schuette had a long, rambling answer that avoided the question. Discussing the evasive answer, Tim Skubick said: “It was clear to me that he’s not going to preserve it.”
- “The fate of Medicaid expansion… is in the hands of the people in several states.”
- “Health policy experts say that, generally, a state’s status of expansion guides which races are most important to watch in the midterms.”
- “The midterms come at a crucial time for health care.”
- “Michigan is one expansion state where health policy could veer far to the right if the Republican nominee for governor, Bill Schuette, wins what is considered a tossup race. Schuette, the state’s attorney general, leans more conservative than term-limited Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. On the campaign trail, Schuette has supported repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.”
- “‘He talks a lot about what he doesn’t like [about the ACA], but he has yet to say what he’d do that’as positive,’ says Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation based in Ann Arbor, Mich. ‘I see him being in the mold of Scott Pruitt at the Environmental Protection Agency…’”
- “Schuette’s Democratic opponent, Gretchen Whitmer, supports Medicaid expansion…”
