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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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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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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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!Show this thread -
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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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The mere elimination of the individual mandate violates any principle of integrity of the insurance pool. You're a snakeoil salesman masquerading as a policy expert. You're so coöpted as to defy belief.
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My employer based insurance premiums skyrocketed so high, I declined coverage. I've never had to do that in 22 years. Sell your lies somewhere else. I'm fed up!
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so you drew the short straw today for giving trump a public BJ...lucky you. i laugh much harder when
@VP does it, but you'll do in a pinch.


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This is an awful lie. Everyone knows Trump and the GOP have done nothing but destabilize the individual insurance market and increase costs. For no reason other than spite You should resign
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Carrying on the Trump administration core competency of lying about everything I see. You are not fooling us, the ACA had its faults but it was working, you have done nothing to stabilize it, but rather made every attempt possible to destabilize it. You should all resign.
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Dude. We were there. You're telling lies. Stop that.
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Your administration destabilized markets; my premiums increased 30%. This was your intent.
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Lies upon lies. You've been deliberately destabilizing the market since elected. Stop the constant lies
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This administration has done nothing but sabotage our existing healthcare system for 20 months. I would say "shame on you" but, given who you work for, you obviously are incapable of shame.
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I am absolutely embarrassed to have you as the head of my agency.
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