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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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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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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My husband has a $2500 deductible. He earns $26k. Math Anyone? This is obscene.
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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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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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This is why we need a social safety net. This is why we need empathetic representatives in Congress
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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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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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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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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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Because of november
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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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