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Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare

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Jeb Bush suspended his presidential campaign on February 20, 2016.[1]


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Former presidential candidate
Jeb Bush
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Former governor of Florida
(1999-2007)
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  • Jeb Bush criticized a decision of the Food and Drug Administration’s to support of a version of slow-release OxyContin for children. Bush voiced his concern on November 4, 2015, in Hollis, New Hampshire. New England has seen a surge of deaths related to prescription opioids.[2]
  • On October 13, 2015, Bush rolled out a plan to replace Obamacare. His plan would put limits on federal payments to states and create a transition plan for the 17 million people receiving insurance coverage under Obamacare. He proposed providing higher tax credits for purchasing catastrophic health insurance and would allow higher contribution limits on health savings accounts for out-of-pocket expenses. The plan also proposed to limit the tax-free status of employer-provided health insurance. The proposal would also give power to the states to design Medicaid programs and increase funding for the National Institutes of Health.[3] [4]
  • In November 2013, Bush said that the Affordable Care Act is “flawed to its core...If the objective is, don't worry about the budget, we'll just finance it the same way we're financing our deficits right now, build a bigger debt, you could see this thing surviving. But it will have failed what the promises were. It will have failed the American people. And I don't think it will bend the cost curve."[5]
  • During an October 2013 speech, "Bush said Obamacare needs to be repealed," according to Politico.[6]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/us/politics/jeb-bush.html?_r=0 The New York Times, " Jeb Bush Bows Out of Campaign, Humbled and Outgunned," February 20, 2016]
  2. ↑ Politico, "Bush: OxyContin prescription for kids 'inappropriate'," November 4, 2015
  3. ↑ The New Hampshire Union Leader, "Another View -- Jeb Bush: Incentives, not mandates, will bring down health care costs," October 12, 2015
  4. ↑ ABC News "Bush Offers Plan to Repeal, Replace Federal Health Care Law," October 13, 2015
  5. ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Obamacare is flawed, Jeb Bush says at Milwaukee event," November 4, 2013
  6. ↑ Politico, "Jeb Bush: End 'crony capitalism'," October 29, 2014
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