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Health care is one of the greatest challenges facing America today; and more than any other state, Michigan has faced the most difficult crisis: skyrocketing health costs coupled with rising unemployment. Today, high-quality affordable health coverage eludes too many families.
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If you are one of the more than 160 million Americans who get health care coverage through your employer, and if you like your health plan and want to keep it, you should be able to do that. Unfortunately, that may not be possible if health care changes under consideration in Washington D.C. take effect.
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After Islamic radicals flew hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center, bringing down the twin towers and killing nearly 3,000 Americans, the U.S. government and the American people had an important decision to make. Do we treat this horrendous terrorist attack as a crime or an act of war?
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Michiganders could find that our “worst in the nation” unemployment rate of 12 percent may climb even higher if the job-killing spending in President Barack Obama’s budget proposal is adopted.
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These are certainly challenging times for our state. With an unemployment rate that leads the nation and with our largest employers – the auto companies and auto suppliers – struggling to remain in business, there can be no question that Michigan’s economy is in dire need of help.
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