If Bush said it, he means it.
December 26, 2008
By Kevin Sack
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Although the number (click here) of uninsured and the cost of coverage in the United States have ballooned under his watch, President George W. Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: He has doubled U.S. financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.
For those in poor urban neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the only dependable providers of basic services like prenatal care, childhood immunizations, asthma treatments, cancer screenings and tests for sexually transmitted diseases. As a crucial component of the health safety net, they are lauded as a cost-effective alternative to hospital emergency rooms, where the uninsured and underinsured often seek care.
Despite the clinics' unprecedented growth, wide swaths of the country remain without access to affordable primary care. The recession has only magnified the need as hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their employer-sponsored health insurance along with their jobs. In response, Democrats on Capitol Hill are proposing even more significant increases, making the centers a likely feature of any health care deal struck by Congress and the Obama administration....
If one asks Donald Trump how he sees the rights within women's health care he would most probably state, "Women can decide for themselves how their health care takes place. There should never be federal dollars for abortion." Donald Trump knows women are capable of managing their own life. He wouldn't demand federal laws governing their decisions. At least I don't think so. His wives have gone on to be successful women. I doubt he seeks to manage their lives.
That is where women's health belongs. Women can decide for themselves what their health care looks like. One never hears anyone running for election about managing men's health care. It is gender bias. Women get less pay for the hours they work and they are always under scrutiny about their health care choices. It is no one's business. The Republicans like to say their health care is between themselves and their doctors. Really? But, when it comes to a woman's health they like to meddle where they don't belong. Double standards. Women are still second class citizens in Republican-World.
August 4, 2015
By Alex Leary
...Appearing at the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, (click here) Bush was talking about Planned Parenthood. But his more general phrasing provided an opening. "@JebBush: You are absolutely, unequivocally wrong," Clinton wrote on Twitter.
An array of Democratic groups, eager to breathe life into the "war on women" them, also weighed in.
Finally, Bush issued a statement.
“With regards to women's health funding broadly, I believe there are countless community health centers, rural clinics, and other women’s health organizations that need to be fully funded. They provide critical services to all, but particularly low-income women who don’t have the access they need.
"The point I was making was that we must address the hard-to-fathom $500 million in federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood – an organization that was callously participating in the unthinkable practice of selling fetal organs. Democrats and Republicans agree we absolutely must defund them and redirect those funds to other women’s health organizations.”
Jeb Bush is lying. The question is whom is he lying to. Is he lying to the American public or is he lying to his Southern Baptist friends?
