Jeb Bush 'Disappointed' in King v. Burwell, Supports 'Repeal and Replace' of Obamacare

Republican presidential hopeful former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida came out swinging at the U.S. Supreme Court’s  King v. Burwell decision in favor of tax subsidies set up by President Barack Obama’s federal health-care law. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy sided with the court liberals on the 6-3 decision. The challenge to Obama’s law specifically focused on whether health insurance tax credits can be run at both the federal and state levels. The plaintiffs insisted only state exchanges can promote the tax credits. 

"I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court ruling in the King v. Burwell case. But this decision is not the end of the fight against Obamacare,” Bush said on Thursday. "This fatally-flawed law imposes job-killing mandates, causes spending in Washington to skyrocket by $1.7 trillion, raises taxes by $1 trillion and drives up health-care costs. Instead of fixing our health-care system, it made the problems worse.  

"As president of the United States, I would make fixing our broken health-care system one of my top priorities,” Bush added.  “I will work with Congress to repeal and replace this flawed law with conservative reforms that empower consumers with more choices and control over their health-care decisions.

"Here is what I believe,” Bush continued. “We need to put patients in charge of their own decisions and health-care reform should actually lower costs. Entrepreneurs should be freed to lower costs and improve access to care – just like American ingenuity does in other sectors of the economy.   

"Americans deserve leadership that can actually fix our broken health-care system, and they are certainly not getting it now from Washington, D.C.,” Bush said in conclusion.