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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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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List some accomplishments and corresponding savings, then. You are a good obfuscator and there are plenty of credulous people who will respond as you wish. You have never written a dollar amount for anything you've claimed.
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You are well aware that he broke the public-private trust jeopardizing such partnerships for years. Is there no one unwilling to sacrifice their credibility in this administration?
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Pass the bong, dude!
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REALLY! After multiple years of 50% year to year increases you think a 2% drop is something to shout about! This is just stupid. Talk about FAKE NEWS!
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Instead there's Trump, who clearly knows nothing about business, cares solely about the wealthy / and or corporations, yet does literally nothing to benefit the vast majority of Americans. Are blatant lies all you have to offer as an ex-drug company executive?
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