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    Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

    The previous administration’s major healthcare achievement, the Affordable Care Act, was an attempt to use more government regulation and intervention to improve American healthcare. As we all know, the results were disastrous, with skyrocketing costs and disappearing choices.

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      2. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        When @POTUS took office, he took aggressive action. Literally, one of the first significant actions by the President was stepping in to help the American people by stabilizing the market as best he could within its broken confines.

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      3. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        Turns out when you have a president who's willing to take decisive action, who understands business, who’s willing to work with the private sector, you can find a way to help American patients—even within a failed system like the ACA. We now have clear evidence that this is true.

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      4. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        BREAKING: We are announcing today that, for the very first time under the ACA, the premium for a typical federal exchange plan will actually drop. Insurers have proposed to cut premiums for these benchmark plans by 2% nationally.

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      5. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        Let me repeat that: Under @POTUS, prices are dropping and choices are returning. The President who was supposedly trying to sabotage the ACA has proven better at managing it than the President who wrote the law. And we're still approving measures to further bring down premiums!

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      6. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        Now, rather than reckon with the failures of the ACA, the same suspects are now proposing to repeat them—by imposing these failed ideas on all of American healthcare. I’m referring to the various proposals to create “Medicare for All.”

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      7. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        The promise of "Medicare for All" is that all should get the quality care like seniors receive today. But the reality would be no one gets that quality—not working Americans who lose their employer insurance and not seniors whose program would now be altered beyond recognition.

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      8. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        The cost of "Medicare for All" would be staggering. By one recent estimate this system would cost taxpayers $32 trillion over a 10-year period. Today, 28% of federal spending is on healthcare. Under "Medicare for All," 58% of our federal budget would be devoted to healthcare.

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      9. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        One of the best things about American healthcare is that we believe if you don’t like your plan, you don’t have to keep it. If you don’t like your doctor, you don’t have to keep them, either! Medicare for All is the opposite—if you don’t like your plan, there’s no way to leave.

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      10. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        There is a better way to do healthcare. It involves sending power back to the American people—to states, to local communities, to your doctor, and to you, as American patients. It involves building on the successes we’ve seen when patients have choice.

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      11. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        Empowering the decision-makers closest to the people is the way of the future, a return to what once made American healthcare great, and the vision @POTUS has to deliver better care for all at lower prices.

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      12. Secretary Alex Azar‏Verified account @SecAzar Sep 27

        Read my full remarks from today on the progress we’ve made to improve health insurance markets for Americans, and the steps we must take to continue moving forward:https://go.usa.gov/xPW5r 

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      1. EpiBen‏ @wellsbe Sep 27
        Replying to @SecAzar

        You’re attempting to foist criminally insufficient junk insurance on us in order to give tax cuts to billionaires. No thank you.

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      1. Bob Barrett WUWF‏ @BobWUWF Sep 27
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        Everything after the first sentence of this entire thread is false.

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      1. Eric Strong‏ @DrEricStrong Sep 27
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        This is a lie from a former drug company executive.

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      1. Stephen Ondra‏ @StephenOndra Sep 27
        Replying to @SecAzar

        The #ACA was passed to be a catalyst to reforming a health system that is unsustainably expensive, too low in value and too inaccessible to millions. It brought access to tens of millions and began changes to higher value. Critics are welcome but solutions would be better.

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      1. Scott Strumello‏ @sstrumello Sep 27
        Replying to @SecAzar

        You are corrupt idiot. THe basic plan for the ACA was hatched at the conservative Heritage Foundation in 1989 in a document entitled "The Heritage Consumer Choice Health Plan" authored by Stuart M. Butler.

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      1. Roberto de la Cruz‏ @medicodallas Sep 27
        Replying to @SecAzar

        Please don’t campaign. This tweet is in poor taste for an executive. Still waiting for drug prices to go down and drug shortages to stop (including essential hospital medications).

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      1. MAURI'S BIRDS‏ @bren2915 Sep 27
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        My son in law is alive because of the ACA. Now I have a grandson. The ACA was successful even before Obama... aka Romney Care. The republicans chipped away at it to make if fail. So just be quiet on this topic since those of us out in the REAL world know the truth.

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      1. jo‏ @jdsoverstreet Sep 27
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        The only disastrous part was when the GOP changed enough of the ACA before it was passed to weaken it. ALL Americans's health & healthcare coverage is VERY IMPORTANT. A healthcare plan to cover ALL Americans should have been enacted a long time ago. Congresses & Presidents fault.

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      1. Aashish Kiran Shah‏ @draashishkshah Sep 27
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        Secretary, just because you have a political post doesnt mean you understand the issue. Specialty pharmacy $ is still the culprit & is NOT addressed by your rhetoric. Results matter Evidence matters. Objectivity matters. You should understand that.

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