The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.

Stabenow and Athans divorced on May 28 2010 approximately two years after Athans was detained in Troy Michigan as part of a prostitution sting. She challenged incumbent Republican U. The news came about after police investigations into an internet-based prostitution ring operating in the hotel questioned Athans.

She previously served as a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate. Stabenow currently serves as Chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Deborah Ann "Debbie" Greer Stabenow (born April 29 1950) is the junior United States Senator from Michigan and a member of the Democratic Party.