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    Matt Lewis‏Verified account @mattklewis 25 Jan 2017

    Note: I WANT Republicans to fix Obamacare with a better free market alternative. (I'm just worried they're being naive about the obstacles.)

    6:53 AM - 25 Jan 2017 from Alexandria, VA
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      2. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Serious question: no other advanced country in the world has a "free market" health care policy. Do you ever think that health

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      3. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @yeselson @mattklewis

        care,based on all the experience in sophisticated democracies, is not a market good, like, say, televisions,and must be

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      4. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @yeselson @mattklewis

        approached in a different way?

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      5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @yeselson @mattklewis

        In fairness something like what Collins-Cassidy allows doesn't approach HC like a normal market good either.

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      6. Richard Yeselson‏ @yeselson 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @DouthatNYT @mattklewis

        That's true. Thats an argument about when and how to use federalism.

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      7. Alex Hazanov‏ @alexhazanov 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @yeselson @DouthatNYT @mattklewis

        The bigger question is: if you accept that pure markets don't work in healthcare, and that...

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      8. Alex Hazanov‏ @alexhazanov 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @alexhazanov @yeselson and

        the marketized system in the US is more expensive, are there any non-ideological reason to pursue markets?

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      2. Think 1st‏ @AlwaysThinkHow 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Don't be childish about "free markets" @mattklewis the only liked and functional system we have is #Medicare let's expand, lower the age

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      3. Think 1st‏ @AlwaysThinkHow 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @AlwaysThinkHow

        Lowering the age for #Medicare @mattklewis would save $700 ~ $800 a month for those over 50, under 65

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      1. Jon Deutsch‏ @jdeutsch 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        How can healthcare be a free market when the purchase decision can be life or death? That does not make for a rational market.

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      1. Keith Franklin‏ @Franklin808 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        Because free market is a death panel. If insurance is just about how to make the most money the easiest way you get death

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      1. CJ 4Trump PROUD Deplorable Dreg‏ @CJ4Trump 25 Jan 2017
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        @HadleyHeath free free free

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      1. Newcomer‏ @Junior_thinks 25 Jan 2017
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        I'm still waiting to see this fantasy plan. MAYBE Obamacare is the best free market option available

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      1. Alex Zelinski‏ @A_Zelinski 25 Jan 2017
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        So are you saying to do nothing at all? Or just that reforms should be moderate?

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      1. The Ghost of Insulin Cowboy 🌹 💉 👻‏ @MPAVictoria 25 Jan 2017
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        Health Care is not a free market and cannot operate as such.

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      1. Adam Beckett‏ @adbeckettOH 25 Jan 2017
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        the free market is a joke and neither It will bleed people dry unfettered and unregulated. Greedy men rarely do the right thing

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      1. armchairpundit 🇨🇦‏ @GAKechnie 25 Jan 2017
        Replying to @mattklewis

        You want a system you only believe will work to your detriment. You're heading down the same road with education.

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      1. Dyllan‏ @Dyllan88 25 Jan 2017
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        what do you think of Susan Collins plan?

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