Jim Gilmore presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare
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 Jim Gilmore |
Governor of Virginia (1998-2002) Attorney General of Virginia (1994-1997) |
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- Jim Gilmore opposed Obamacare in a June 2015 interview. He said:[2]
| “ | If I were president I would seek to eliminate that approach. I'm not against healthcare, but I would not be in favor of the Obamacare state-type of approach. I believe we were doing better when we liberated businesses to offer these kinds of programs through the private sector. The business of insurance was to, in fact, try to find the best quality product to make people as healthy as possible. There were some people who did not have that opportunity. And frankly, if you have a lousy economy we do not always get those benefits. And then you do have ... Medicaid to take care of those situations. But I believe that a free market based economy where people have an incentive to offer a better healthcare product or a better premium is the right way we should be going.[2][3] | ” |
- In the same June 2015 interview, Gilmore said that he supported children being able to stay on their parents' insurance for longer and the Obamacare approach to pre-existing conditions. He said these select provisions were "very beneficial" and that the approach "would in the free market economy adjust itself in the premium appropriately."[2]
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- ↑ Politico, "Jim Gilmore suspends campaign," February 12, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 WMUR9 ABC, "Commitment 2016 Conversation with the Candidate: Jim Gilmore," June 19, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
