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FIRST, yesterday we learned of a plot to kidnap & kill Gov. Whitmer, blow up the state capitol and murder police officers by right-wing domestic terrorists...while MI Republicans refuse to ban firearms at the capitol. Donate to these Michigan Dems today: secure.actblue.com/donate/miforbi…
SENATE: You can donate to Dems running in red states like Oklahoma, Wyoming, Tennessee, Mississippi, Nebraska and even South Dakota! 2/ secure.actblue.com/donate/retakes…
Seeing how the terrorists are right-wing white supremacists and both Charltfield and Shirley are right-wing loudmouth idiots, I can think of several reasons why the primary target of the plot might think twice about keeping them in the loop.
This by @xpostfactoid is excellent. There may only be 10-11 million people enrolled in ACA exchange plans at any given time, but a good 14% of the U.S. population has been enrolled in them at some point in the past 7 years.
The irony of Trump pushing #ShortAssPlans so hard instead of ACA-compliment policies is that for millions of Americans, ACA policies THEMSELVES act as “short-term plans”. If you lose a job w/benefits in January and get another in October, guess what’s there for you in between?
One philosophical flaw with the ACA exchange concept was assuming that it would be more like the employer-based market (w/most enrollees sticking around year after year) instead of the Medicaid market (many enrollees moving in & out throughout the year).
THREAD: The other day @paulkrugman correctly noted that assuming the Trump/GOP lawsuit to strike down the #ACA fails, @JoeBiden's healthcare proposal (which basically amounts to #ACA2wPO) would be a Big F*cking Deal: nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opi… 1/
Krugman notes that most of the #BidenCare focus has been on the Public Option which "in the near term would be much less important than other aspects of the plan."
The "other parts" he's referring to are primarily the "ACA 2.0" parts which I've been calling for for years. 2/
As I noted in my updated analysis of #BidenCare, while there's a LOT going on in his plan, the parts Krugman refers to include killing the subsidy cliff, beefing up the subsidies, upgrading from silver to gold & autoenrolling low-income folks: 3/ acasignups.net/20/07/23/biden…