Michiganders,

I just just spoke with the Senate Appropriations Committee clerk when checking on whether a Supplemental appropriations bill[1] number was assigned for the 30.9 million dollar (Level One Federal grant) for the implementation of an Exchange here in Michigan.

Good News and Congratulations!

Through the combined efforts of grassroots across Michigan contacting theSenate Committee Chair, the members of the Senate Appropriations Committeewere “not comfortable with proceeding with a supplemental bill (appropriating the 30.9 million) at this time”.

The members of the Senate Committee, particularly with its members facing reelection in 2014 have responded to your phone calls, emails and faxes.

Thank you for all you do, YOU are the heart and soul of a free Michigan

Joan Fabiano
Founder Grassroots in Michigan

Now you know what I’ve been busy working on. What have you done lately?

First, I don’t see young people buying the insurance when they can pay the relatively nominal penalty.

Second, we hear about smaller companies dropping their plans. But as premiums rise dramatically, I doubt companies want to be dealing with this mess and getting criticized by employees for something that’s way beyond their control. As a result, I’ll be more and more medium-sized companies drop their plans. And finally some larger companies will too.

The challenge is to prompt one group of consumers to change: the 18 million 20- and 30-somethings who don’t have health insurance. The arithmetic of Obamacare depends on getting more Americans to buy health insurance. If the young and healthy don’t show up, the math doesn’t work—and the cost of insurance for those who do shop in the new exchanges will be higher. That’s why there is a high-profile campaign in the works to recruit young people.

So how much sense did it make to allow young folks to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26? That seems to undercut the main thrust of the mandate (er, I mean RobertsTax).

18-29 year olds are suffering through the lowest real wages in a decade, heavy debt loads and terrible job prospects.

alwaysfiredup on February 14, 2013 at 10:22 AM

So what? That is what Americans VOTED FOR!

The real problem STIL lays with Americans. That much is clear, so for the few here that have decided that the time to stop working feverishly as bench warmers has arrived, you could begin here IF you are REALLY WORRIED about being screwed. Then, IF you agree with Brent Bozell’s summation AND you sill avethat fir in your belly, you might want to start looking for the closest TEA Party group to your location and go to one of their meetings. If not you, who?

It is SO EASY to get involved today, more so than when I searched out my local chapter of the GOP over a decade ago. I had realized that if I weren’t willing to get involved then I deserved the worst the corrupt-o-crats could deliver. That is why I am AGAIN going to the MIGOP Convention as THE elected delegate from my township [for the fourth time], which is being held later this month. I can promise you that the politicians there will be made MOST UNCOMFORTABLE when I confront them and there will be absolutely no doubt in their minds as to whose ass they will have to kiss [as Allahpundit so colorfully puts it].

NEVER FORGET! America ALWAYS gets the government it DESERVES, and whiners win nothing!

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WHAT!?!?