Huckabee focuses on health care
The Telegraph
August 16, 2006
BEDFORD (AP) – Potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee stressed health care as an economic issue Friday at a forum on politics.
At the rate health-care costs are rising, they will account for 20 percent of the country’s gross domestic product by 2015, said Huckabee, the Republican governor of Arkansas.
“It is the No. 1 economic driver in America, it is the No. 1 factor making it difficult if not impossible for American companies to be competitive with companies across the globe,” he said at the Politics & Eggs forum on the second day of a four-day visit to the first-primary state.
Huckabee, who is exploring running for president in 2008, spoke from personal experience, as well as a policymaker.
Diagnosed with diabetes in 2003, Huckabee lost more than 100 pounds and took up marathon running. He wrote a book, “Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork.”
In Arkansas, he used tobacco-settlement money to expand health insurance for young people and created incentives for state workers for getting checkups and following other healthy habits.
He is promoting similar initiatives as the new head of the National Governors Association, urging Americans to exercise more, eat healthier and stop smoking.
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