Bush offers plan to repeal, replace federal health care law

Bush argues that the ACA has led to “skyrocketing healthcare premiums across the country” and that it fails to hold providers accountable for the value of care they deliver. It does, however, guarantee coverage for people with pre-existing health conditions, which is part of Obamas 974-page federal health law.

Bush is scheduled to outline the plan in a speech this morning at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College at 10 a.m. So far the plan does not say how he would go about repealing the ACA.

In social media posts online, Batchelder lists that she is an intern for Bush’s presidential campaign and has also attended events with candidates like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The Bush campaign said she was a “volunteer supporter” but that she challenged Trump on her own accord.

Bush would overhaul the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory system and set up a review of regulatory barriers to health innovation. And he would put caps on federal payments to states and create a “transition plan” for 17 million people “entangled” in Obamas Affordable Care Act.

Mr. Bush wants to replace the 40 percent so-called “Cadillac Tax” that is slated to into effect in 2018 on the most expensive health care plans with a $12,000 tax break on health insurance obtained through employers.

The document contains no specific details on how many people could be left without insurance, but the former governor is expected to release more details Tuesday during a three-day swing through New Hampshire.

James Flathers, a long-time Republican voter who has Parkinson’s disease, said the president’s health care law was a financial savior when he had to switch jobs. Nationally, Bush is mired in the middle of the pack of Republican competitors.

“Maybe I’m wrong, maybe you can prove me wrong, but I don’t think you’re a friend to women”, student Lauren Rose Batchelder said to applause from the audience.

Bush and his GOP presidential rivals are united in their calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act, but they have been unable to find agreement on what should replace it.

Experts say any plan to repeal the federal mandates and reduce insurance subsidies under the current law would increase the number of uninsured.