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Hoekstra Is Bad Medicine For Michigan

By David from Muskegon, MI - Oct 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pm EDT

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Hoekstra Is Bad Medicine For Michigan
Even His Family In The Netherlands Gets Health Care

Congressman Pete Hoekstra's town halls on health care show that he is the wrong choice for Governor of Michigan. Last week in Hudsonville, he vehemently exclaimed that he was against what is being considered in congress without offering ideas about what should be done about the rising cost and declining quality of health care. He didn't even entertain the idea of expanding coverage to the uninsured.

Michigan is one of the most economically distressed states, due in part to its rampant unemployment. For a number of reasons, our state has had perhaps the most difficult time thriving in a changing global economic climate. The Great Lakes State has seen a lot of suffering and now it is worse than it has ever been.

Pete Hoekstra is unfit to lead a state with these kinds of struggles. If he truly cared about the people of Michigan, he would fight for policies that could help those who are feeling the most pain.

Even the Netherlands, where Hoekstra was born, has some form of cost control and subsidized coverage; although it is not the best in Europe. It's possible that his mother received government-regulated medicine during his birth. Certainly Hoekstra’s immediate family back in the Netherlands benefits from so-called "socialized medicine" today. Perhaps if Mr. Hoekstra wants to be governor, he will help the people of Michigan attain that which he and his family enjoy: The security of their health.

Fact: Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii, is more American than Pete Hoeksta.

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