Time to Vote!
Your vote determines who gets the 2026 MHF Defender Award. It’s the highest honor awarded a Michigan legislator who stands up in committee for less expensive healthcare and more freedom.
We had six nominees for the MHF Defender Award this year. They represent both chambers of the legislature, and both parties.
The final result is up to you.
The 2024 MHF Defender Award
Expensive healthcare isn’t just a topic in Lansing. Quite often, it’s the goal.
The winners are Big Health lobbies, Big Government bureaucracies, and legislators who fool their voters into thinking they did something quite different.
All six MHF Defender nominees and the expensive healthcare issues they addressed are listed below.
Who deserves the top award for 2026?
Pick your issue, choose your Defender. Vote below!
1. Representative John Fitzgerald: another insurance benefit mandate.
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2. Senator Lana Theis: a pharma price control board.
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3. Representative Matthew Bierlein: health data – privacy
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4. Representative Luke Meerman: health data – costs
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5. Senator Thomas Albert: the whopper earmark
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6. Representative Jamie Thompson: pay to play license rules
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