John James on what he'd replace the #ACA with a "market-based, patient-centered approach" with "tort reform" that gives "doctors and patients the power".
He also falsely claims that Peters "thinks M4All is where we're gonna go" and is corrected.
John James asked how he'd require pre-existing conditions be covered if the #ACA is struck down. He responds with something about "tort reform" and "listening to the experts". #MPC20#MISen
John James says we need to "keep the parts of Obamacare which work" and eliminate the rest. Says the only part which works is "covering pre-existing conditions". #MPC20#MISen
John James understands absolutely nothing about risk pools or adverse selection & apparently thinks Medicaid expansion sucks.
Like the rest of the GOP, the *ONLY* lesson he learned from 2018 is that he has to utter the phrase "pre-existing conditions" a lot.
...the vast majority of this discrepancy happened in districts/counties which were heavily red to begin with, which is why the MAGA COVID Death Cult factor only ended up making a decisive difference in exactly one statewide race: Arizona Attorney General: acasignups.net/22/12/29/updat…
At the House district level it didn't make a decisive difference in any races at all. To understand why, let's look at two extreme examples...
People have started asking why I'm still pushing fundraising for Dems just 5 days before Election Day. All the ad time has been purchased & the lit pieces printed & mailed out already, right?
There's several reasons: 1/
1. For state legislative races in particular, a last-minute cash infusion of even $50 can mean an extra few pizzas for tired & hungry canvassers or an extra burner phone for phone banking.
2. After the polls close, there's going to no doubt be some races which require recounts...which may or may not have to be paid for by the campaign requesting it, depending on the state and the margin. That's gonna cost money.
🧵THE DEAD POOL: Since @MikeJohnson and @JDVance are promising to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about that. 1/ acasignups.net/24/10/04/dead-…
Let's go back to the pre-ACA healthcare landscape. This is what it looked like in 2012...*before* the ACA's major provisions went into effect.
Half the US had employer coverage. Another third had Medicare or Medicaid. ~11M had "individual" insurance; ~48M had nothing at all. 2/
The ACA had 2 main goals:
1. Reduce the number of uninsured Americans as much as possible by making coverage more affordable & accessible;
2. Provide protections from insurance industry abuses, *especially* for the individual market where the abuses were the most blatant. 3/
AGAIN: This graph is the single most important explainer of how risk pools work & the dangers of separating people out into risk pools based on their CURRENT health.
5% of the population racks up over 50% of total healthcare spending.
If you throw them under the bus, healthcare costs for the other 95% of the population drops in half, except for one small problem even IF you don't care about Grandma or Cousin Fred Who Was Just Diagnosed With Cancer:
You never know when YOU'RE gonna become Cousin Fred.