Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare
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 Marco Rubio |
Current U.S. Senator (2011-Present) FL House of Representatives (2000-2009) |
 Republican candidate: |
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- While discussing healthcare for disabled individuals on January 27, 2016, Marco Rubio recounted his grandfather’s struggle with polio. He said, “Imagine being disabled, at the turn of a century, in a developing country like Cuba and having to raise seven girls, which is what he had to do. It was hard. He struggled most of his life to do that.” Rubio said high-risk pools should be established by the state to help those with chronic and serious conditions who could not otherwise obtain health insurance. He noted, however, that he believed some in the U.S. were “cheating the system.”[2]
- Rubio voted in favor of a Senate bill to repeal large portions of the Affordable Care Act on December 3, 2015.[3]
- At a campaign event in New Hampshire on October 16, 2015, Rubio criticized pharmaceutical companies of “pure profiteering.” According to The Wall Street Journal, Rubio argued that high drug prices are the result of government regulations and the companies’ attempt “to offset declining consumer demand as their products lose market share to newer rival treatments.” Rubio said, “You ask yourself, how is this possible? There are less prescriptions being written for that drug and yet you’re making more money on it than you ever have. The answer is they’re raising the prices dramatically, and the reason they’re raising the price dramatically is because they can. … The market will bear it. It’s just pure profiteering.”[4]
- Rubio wrote an op-ed in Politico on August 17, 2015, detailing how to improve healthcare in the United States. After repealing the Affordable Care Act, Rubio’s plan would “create an advanceable, refundable tax credit that all Americans can use to purchase health insurance,” reform insurance regulations, and transition Medicare to a premium support system.[5]
- Along with Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Rubio introduced the Medicare Common Access Card Act of 2015 to combat identity theft, fraud, and abuse in the Medicare system in July 2015. “Every time a senior citizen turns to our office for help because their identity has been stolen or they’ve been victimized through the Medicare program, I am sickened by the criminals who prey on them. Seniors in Florida and across the country deserve state-of-the-art measures like this ‘Common Access Card’ to help prevent fraud,” Rubio said in a statement.[6]
- According to his official website, "We should propose common sense, free-market ideas to make health care more accessible and affordable. Senator Rubio will focus on three goals: repealing and replacing Obamacare; allowing individuals to control their own health care choices; and returning control of health policy to the states."[7]
- In January 2013, Rubio co-sponsored S.177 - the ObamaCare Repeal Act.[8]
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Footnotes
- ↑ The New York Times, "Marco Rubio Suspends His Presidential Campaign," March 15, 2016
- ↑ The Des Moines Register, "Rubio: Some 'cheating' disability system," January 27, 2016
- ↑ CBS News, "Senate passes Obamacare repeal bill," December 3, 2015
- ↑ The Wall Street Journal, "Marco Rubio Latest to Speak Out on Prescription Drug Prices," October 19, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "My Plan To Fix Health Care," August 17, 2015
- ↑ U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio, "Rubio Leads Effort To Protect Seniors, Prevent Medicare Fraud," July 28, 2015
- ↑ Rubio.Senate.gov, "Healthcare," accessed February 17, 2015
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.177 - ObamaCare Repeal Act," accessed February 10, 2015
