Voters in Missouri avowed overwhelming resistance last week to the central government require nearly all Americans to buy health insurance. The vote set no legally binding precedent, but will help assemble foes of President Barack Obama's agenda in the fall midterm elections.That could make dissimilarity in states with seal congressional races Michigan will have at least two which could in rotate shape the balance of power in Washington. In Missouri, 71% of voters said yes to a state measure to bar the government from require people to take group health insurance, and punishing those who don't. That approach is at the heart of the federal health care law that Obama signed in March, to take effect in 2014. There's little chance that Missouri can wall itself off from the insurance requirement, since federal law usually supersedes state law. But sponsors of the ballot measure were looking for send a message. "It will help rally people who be against the Obama administration to go to the polls in the fall elections," said Robert Blendon, a Harvard public health school professor who tracks opinion on health care. "It shows it is still alive, and that's what the sponsors wanted to do." Meantime, the annual report from the trustees of Medicare came out Thursday, presentation the system of national health care for the elderly is in better form because of Obama's sweeping health care overhaul and will hang about afloat a dozen years longer than preceding projected.
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