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    1. 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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      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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        2. 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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        3. 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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        4. 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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        5. 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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        6. 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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        7. 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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        8. 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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        9. 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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        2. Rana‏ @RanaLV Sep 27
          Replying to @SecAzar

          So you’re saying I may get a 2% drop in my premiums, which soared over 33% this year due to GOP sabotage. This means I paid an extra $1,600 this year over 2017 (for more restrictive coverage) but I only get to pay an extra $1,468 over 2017 next year. Wow! *sarcasm*

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        3.  💙 ❄ 💙LibralVeganMeToo‏ @LiBethOld1 Sep 27
          Replying to @RanaLV @SecAzar

          My husband has a $2500 deductible. He earns $26k. Math Anyone? This is obscene.

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        4. Rana‏ @RanaLV Sep 27
          Replying to @LiBethOld1 @SecAzar

          I get zero out of network coverage now. So if I get in an accident and get taken to the nearest hospital and it’s not covered, I go bankrupt.

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        5.  💙 ❄ 💙LibralVeganMeToo‏ @LiBethOld1 Sep 27
          Replying to @RanaLV @SecAzar

          I am 54 years old with no coverage. We fall in the cracks. My exit strategy is walking into the surf. Oh, my husband was just diagnosed with cancer or the kidney. So my only source of income is terminally ill.

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        6. Rana‏ @RanaLV Sep 27
          Replying to @LiBethOld1 @SecAzar

          This is why we need a social safety net. This is why we need empathetic representatives in Congress

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        1. HeatherG‏ @Dragonfly976 Sep 27
          Replying to @SecAzar

          Wow, Secretary. You guys are awesome! <Insert eyeroll here> The average plan spiked over 30% last year, so you don't get thunderous applause for a 2% drop.

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        1. Jason Dunn‏ @JasonDunn16 Sep 27
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          Dropping in spite of POTUS, not because of him. There is a difference. Pushing junk plans isn’t the answer, either.

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        1. Elyse Massa‏ @ElyseMassa Sep 27
          Replying to @SecAzar

          Wow! So with a whopping 2% reduction my monthly premium of $1700 will be reduced by $34? I’m supposed to be happy with that? And you’re proud of that? 2%??

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        1. TajaReyul‏ @tajareyul Sep 28
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          Yeah, 2% isn't going to bring coverage anywhere near cheap enough for me to afford. Reinstate and expand the subsidies, please.

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        1. david sinclair‏ @davidsi06717930 Sep 28
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          Because of november

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        1. Gwhiz‏ @Gwhiznv Sep 27
          Replying to @SecAzar

          Will u give up your tax subsidized healthcare and buy on the open market in your individual state like we have to? Once u do u realize with networks of doctors u have no coverage if u traveled to DC? Let see u show us and lead ?

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