Lawrence Lessig presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare

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Lawrence Lessig suspended his presidential campaign on November 2, 2015.^[1]

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Lawrence Lessig said, unlike Hillary Clinton, he would keep Obamacare's Cadillac tax—a tax on high-cost employer healthcare plans. “Economists can say little with certainty but they are all pretty united on the view that super premium benefit packages burden middle class wages. So long as the tax remains targeted on the luxury plans, I would retain it,” Lessig told Politico on October 14, 2015. He also reiterated his overall support for Obamacare.

In September 2015, Lessig called Obamacare "the most important thing" President Obama did.^[2]

In an interview with Reason in August 2015, Lessig said Obamacare was "an important piece of legislation," but suggested that it had been partially designed with pharmaceutical companies' interests in mind. Lessig said, "It has incredibly important compromises built in that are only there because of the money. For example, even though Obama ridiculed George Bush's prescription drug law for the rule that says the government can't negotiate lower prices with drug manufacturers, that provision is in Obamacare. And why is it in Obamacare? Because the pharmaceutical companies basically said they would spend millions of dollars to defeat Democrats if it weren't included."^[3]

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