A new attack ad by Democrat Elissa Slotkin shows she's not messing around in her bid to oust Republican Rep. Mike Bishop from Michigan's 8th Congressional District.
Drawing from the story of her mother's unsuccessful battle with cancer, Slotkin takes aim at Bishop for his vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, accusing him trying "to gut protections for pre-existing conditions." In the 60-second spot, Slotkin says that when she saw Bishop "smiling at the White House" after last year's vote, "something inside me broke."
Bishop's campaign claims his vote was to strengthen protections for patients with pre-existing conditions, but according to the Detroit Free Press, analyses of the bill indicated it could make coverage more expensive for people with pre-existing conditions, particularly if they let their coverage lapse or resided in states with permission to base insurance premiums on more individualized circumstances.…