Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

Upton defeated him 66%-32%. [who?] He is a member of several Republican groups such as the Republican Main Street Partnership and Christine Todd Whitman's IMP-PAC (Its My Party Too). " In April 2009 he maintained that "climate change is a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions.

Frederick Stephen "Fred" Upton (born April 23 1953) is the U. The district stretches along the Michigan-Indiana border in the southwestern part of the state.