Pre-ACA, there were various state/local programs set up which tried to mitigate at least some of the suffering of those without coverage. Many of those programs are gone, rendered unnecessary by the ACA. They couldn’t be simply dusted off and reinstated at the drop of a hat.
Even if the funding for those programs was reinstated (in the middle of a major recession w/states already cash-strapped?), there’s all sorts of logistical challenges which would take time to ramp back up again.
Plus, some states, as @korb_heather noted and I’ve noted before, have already passed laws replicated #ACA protections to defend against Trump’s other sabotage. While I’m glad they’ve done so, the fact remains that ACA protections without ACA funding is a recipe for disaster.
Plus, while there’s a law preventing insurance companies from using your genetic data to price premiums, it has major holes in it...and I don’t believe there’s any law BESIDES the ACA preventing them from basing premiums on social media data mining. acasignups.net/18/06/12/good-…
Since 2010, not only has genetic info exploded, so has social media data mining. Without the ACA, every Instagram photo of your dinner or Facebook post about the time you went white-water rafting could be fair game for insurance carriers to deny coverage or jack up the price.
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🧵 People have asked me why I started an organized project to raise money *directly* for Democratic candidates up & down the ballot when there's already so many other organizations out there doing this. There's a couple of reasons. 1/
The first is that most of the existing organizations/PACs/etc seem to (in my view) *either* focus ONLY on the true swing districts *or* they raise money for races which are clearly unwinnable without being up front about how long the odds in those races are. 2/
I try to walk the line between these--for district-level races I cast my net wider than most "tossup only!" advocates, but not absurdly wide; for statewide races I *do* include deep red states but also make it absolutely clear that those races are *very* long shots. 3/
A little fun Die Hard trivia for those who don’t know:
The first Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. In the novel McClain’s character was named Joe Leland. This was a sequel to a 1966 novel by Thorp called The Detective. 1/
The Detective had been made into a film starring Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland in 1968.
This means Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.
In fact, the studio was contractually required to offer the role to Sinatra if he wanted it. Sinatra was 73 at the time.
As for the novel Nothing Lasts Forever (title since changed to “Die Hard”), it follows most of the same storyline and characters, but with a few VERY important differences…
How does the @nytimes know that these are actual federal officials who actually signed it if they did so “anonymously?”
Does that mean the Times is redacting their names? Or does it just say “signed, 400 officials” at the bottom of the letter?
@nytimes I’m not being snarky here—I can’t read the original NY Times article without a subscription; do they clarify how they verified that these 400 people actually are federal officials and that they did in fact sign off on the letter in it?
1. DON'T DELAY; #GETCOVERED BY *DECEMBER 15th* IF POSSIBLE!
#ACA Open Enrollment officially runs from 11/01/23 - 1/16/24, but if you want your coverage to start in JANUARY you only have until December 15th in most states!
Here's a table of the deadlines & when coverage starts for every state +DC (some may be extended at the last minute):