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Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2016/Healthcare

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Mike Huckabee suspended his presidential campaign on February 1, 2016.[1]


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Former presidential candidate
Mike Huckabee
Political offices:
Former Governor of Arkansas
(1996-2007)
Former Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
(1993-1996)
Huckabee on the issues:
Taxes • Banking policy • Government regulations • International trade • Budgets • Agricultural subsidies • Federal assistance programs • Foreign affairs • Federalism • Healthcare • Immigration • Education • Abortion • Gay rights
Republican Party Republican candidate:
Donald Trump
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  • In June 2015, Mike Huckabee denounced the ruling in King v. Burwell, which stated that tax credit subsidies were permissible for insurance purchased from any type of exchange under Obamacare, calling the decision "an out-of-control act of judicial tyranny." Huckabee added, "As President, I will protect Medicare, repeal ObamaCare, and pass real reform that will actually lower costs, while focusing on cures and prevention rather than intervention."[2]
  • In December 2013, Huckabee said Obamacare was "not working out very well" and President Obama was making "arbitrary changes" to the law as a result.[3]
  • While appearing at the Value Voters Summit in 2010, Huckabee opposed requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, comparing the concept to requiring property insurance companies to cover a building that burned down.[4]
  • On his 2008 campaign website, Huckabee wrote, "We can make health care more affordable by reforming medical liability; adopting electronic record keeping; making health insurance more portable from one job to another; expanding health savings accounts to everyone, not just those with high deductibles; and making health insurance tax deductible for individuals and families as it now is for businesses. Low income families would get tax credits instead of deductions. We don't need all the government controls that would inevitably come with universal health care. When I'm President, Americans will have more control of their health care options, not less."[5]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ USA Today, "Huckabee ends GOP presidential bid," February 1, 2016
  2. ↑ Washington Post, "Huckabee calls court’s health-care ruling an ‘act of judicial tyranny,’" June 25, 2015
  3. ↑ Politico, "Huckabee says Obamacare 'not working,'" December 22, 2013
  4. ↑ Talking Points Memo, "Huckabee Opposes Insurance For People With Pre-Existing Conditions," September 17, 2010
  5. ↑ Mike Huckabee for President 2008, "Issues: Healthcare," accessed July 8, 2015
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