Hillary Clinton highlights middle-class tax credit to meet health costs
Hillary Clinton on Friday said middle-class families should receive tax relief to meet rising costs and to boost their incomes.
The Democratic presidential frontrunner highlighted parts of her tax plan during two campaign events in Tennessee.
Clinton, who has said she opposes tax increases for the middle class, focused on a proposed tax credit to help them meet skyrocketing healthcare costs. The credit would be a maximum of $2,500 for an individual and up to $5,000 for a family.
"Somebody gets sick, somebody has an accident, you've got to be prepared, but too many families don't have those resources," Clinton said at a college in Memphis.
"We're going to go after these high prescription drug costs," she added.
Clinton said she would defend and improve Obamacare and said if she were elected president, she would try and convince more governors to expand Medicaid.
During the campaign so far, Clinton has said she supports extending the American Opportunity Tax Credit to help families afford college costs.
In Iowa on Sunday, a campaign aide said Clinton will unveil the next of her proposals and will announce even more tax cuts over the next several weeks and months to help boost take-home pay for the middle class.
This marks Clinton's first campaign visit to Tennessee during the 2016 cycle. She's scheduled to visit a university in Nashville in the evening.
Her remarks come a day after she spoke about the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and what should be done to defeat the terrorist group.
CBS News' Hannah Fraser-Chanpong contributed to this story.
