Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016/Federal assistance programs
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- After being confronted at a New Hampshire town hall meeting on July 23, 2015, about his plan to “phase out” Medicare, Jeb Bush called the program an “actuarially unsound healthcare system” and added that Social Security is an “underfunded retirement system. He said, “The people that are receiving these benefits – I don’t think we should touch that, but your children and grandchildren are not going to get the benefits that they believe they are going to get or that you think they’re going to get. Whenever you get into a conversation about reforming entitlement the first thing that you can be guaranteed of is that the left will attack you and demonize you.”[2]
- In June 2013, Bush argued that increasing legal immigration would fix the imbalance between retired individuals and working individuals, which would then safeguard the future of Social Security. He said, "We're going to have fewer workers taking care of a larger number of people the country has a social contract with to be able to allow them to retire with dignity and purpose. We cannot do that with the fertility rates that we have in our country. We're below break-even today. The one way that we can rebuild the demographic pyramid is to fix a broken immigration system to allow for people to come and learn English and play by our rules, to embrace our values and to pursue their dreams in our country with a vengeance to create more opportunities for all of us."[3]
- In 2013, Gov. Rick Scott expanded and implemented a program to privatize Medicaid, which Bush introduced as a pilot program during his tenure as governor.[4]
- According to The New Yorker, Bush "introduced a pilot program that allowed Medicaid recipients to select from a range of commercial health-care plans. Democrats, and some medical providers, accused him of following an ideologically driven agenda of privatization and cost-cutting that would end up harming patients. Conservatives hailed his reforms as a model for the rest of the country."[5]
- According to a February 2008 article in the Florida Times-Union, "Bush's vision for a new Medicaid would have allowed all people on Medicaid to choose from competing private plans. People who engaged in preventive screenings, necessary checkups and prescribed treatment regimens could earn credits to cover the cost of other health care services."[6]
- During his 1994 campaign for governor of Florida, Bush said that marriage was "one of many options" for women to get off of welfare and "if people are honest about the welfare system we have today, how you get on welfare is not having a husband in the house."[7]
- Bush also wrote in his 1995 book, Profiles in Character, that there should be a greater shame attached to out-of-wedlock births. Bush explained, "One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out-of-wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful."[8]
- In 2001, Bush declined to veto a Florida law that required single mothers to publish their sexual histories in a newspaper weekly for a month before they could offer their child up for adoption. This law, often called "The Scarlet Letter Law," was intended to protect the rights of both future adoptive parents and the birth father, although Bush conceded it had "its deficiencies" because "there is a shortage of responsibility on behalf of the birth father that could be corrected by requiring some proactive conduct on his part." The law was repealed in 2003.[9]
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- ↑ [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/us/politics/jeb-bush.html?_r=0 The New York Times, " Jeb Bush Bows Out of Campaign, Humbled and Outgunned," February 20, 2016]
- ↑ The Wall Street Journal, "Jeb Bush Learns Perils of Medicare Overhaul Proposal," July 23, 2015
- ↑ CNN, "Jeb Bush, arguing for immigration reform, says immigrants 'more fertile'," June 14, 2014
- ↑ Modern Healthcare, "Florida gets final OK for Medicaid privatization," June 14, 2013
- ↑ New Yorker, "What Type of Conservative Is Jeb Bush?" accessed February 19, 2015
- ↑ Florida Times-Union, "Florida Medicaid reform under siege," accessed February 20, 2015
- ↑ The Orlando Sentinel, "Smith Rips Bush's 'Find A Husband' Tip For Women On Welfare," September 7, 1994
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "Jeb Bush In 1995: Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed," June 9, 2015
- ↑ NPR, "Jeb Bush And Florida's 'Scarlet Letter Law,' Explained," June 10, 2015
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