Michigan governor Rick Snyder signed a bill that would
regulate abortion clinics and he vetoed a bill that would prevent private
health insurers from providing abortion coverage as a normal part of their
insurance policies.
I have always said that I support Rick Snyder because I
consider him to be the best Michigan governor for our time; he is not a
politician but a businessman who looks at issues in an objective way that
normal politicians can never do because they are tied to their party ideology
making them incapable of using common sense.
I was disappointed that he signed the bill saddling abortion
clinics with more regulations that the Republicans passed in a never ending
battle to ban all abortions which are legal and the law of the land. But on
reading the actual law, I can see where Snyder did not think that the bill
would prohibit abortions from being performed and may actually make things a
little safer for the women seeking abortions.
My disappointment was tempered somewhat when I read that he
had vetoed the law which would make Blue Cross/Blue Shield a “regular” medical
insurer that paid taxes which they have not in the past because they were
deemed “the insurer of last resort” which meant they had to offer medical
insurance to anybody and everybody that requested it.
Why did Snyder veto a bill that he actually inspired and
promoted? Well, the idiot Republicans in their quest to hinder abortion rights
added a paragraph to the bill that would have prevented all private medical
insurers from offering abortion coverage as part of their regular policies;
they could offer abortion coverage only as a “special” rider that the insured
would have to request at additional cost.
The fact that he vetoed the bill that he basically asked for
because of that controversial and idiotic anti-abortion add-on makes me respect
his judgment even more. He truly is a man of the people and for the people and
not a politician representing only narrow interest groups.
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