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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
⚠️ REMINDER: Two Runoff Elections in Georgia could decide the fate of the #ACA. acasignups.net/20/11/11/two-r…
EVERYTHING is riding on the Georgia Senate runoffs. Support Jon @Ossoff, @ReverendWarnock, @fairfightaction and @MovementVote by donating today:

secure.actblue.com/donate/garunof…
NOTE: I've added several other Georgia-based GOTV organizations including the GA NAACP. Remember, while donations will be split evenly by default, you can also pick & choose which organizations you wish to donate to.
SEND THIS TO YOUR GEORGIA-BASED FAMILY & FRIENDS: These are the low/high estimates of how many Georgia residents would lose healthcare coverage and how much federal funding Georgia would lose by Congressional District if the #ACA is struck down by the GOP lawsuit.

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15 Nov
Obama: "The coal industry is dead, but I'll help them retrain/relocate."
Coal Country: "NO!"

Clinton: "The coal industry is dead, but I'll help them retrain/relocate."
Coal Country: "NO!"

Trump: "I'm gonna lie about bringing back the coal industry!"
Coal Country: "YAY!"
Now fill in this blank:

Biden: "The coal industry is dead, but I'll help them retrain/relocate."
Coal Country: "______!"
Of course not everyone can relocate, so retraining does no good if there's no jobs available in the new field in your area.

Obama/Clinton/Biden: "We'll also invest in infrastructure to attract jobs in other fields TO COAL COUNTRY!"
GOP: "NO!"
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13 Nov
THE UNINSURED POPULATION COULD BE REDUCED BY ~45% WITHOUT A SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION BEING PASSED OR SIGNED INTO LAW...

...all it needs is a major outreach/marketing budget.
Millions of people are eligible for Medicaid/CHIP (either via ACA expansion or "standard" Medicaid) who either:

1) don't know they're eligible
2) have trouble w/the enrollment/application process
3) may feel embarrassed/stigmatized to admit they need help
The same is true of subsidized ACA plans (although I'd imagine only #1 & #2 are major issues for those).
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13 Nov
...except it could also give control of the House over to the GOP. Even in a D+7 district it would be left open for several months until the Special Election.

I thinks she’s so a fantastic job, but BIDEN SHOULD NOT REMOVE ANY DEMOCRATIC HOUSE OR SENATE MEMBERS RIGHT NOW.
I don’t think people fully appreciate how fucked we’d be if we lost the House this session. Even if we flip both GA Senate seats, we’d just reverse the problem. Zero legislation AND they’d try to impeach Biden out of the gate as “revenge” for Trump’s deserved impeachment.
For those who haven't been following along, via @CookPolitical, right now it looks like:

Dems: 221 (218 needed for majority)
GOP: 207
Uncalled: 7
Here's the status of those 7 races right now:
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13 Nov
📣 WASHINGTON STATE: @WAPlanFinder announces 182K #ACA exchange enrollees in first 4 days...for a simple reason:
acasignups.net/20/11/13/washi…
The Washington #ACA exchange also announced that 30% of *new* enrollees have selected the new "Cascade Care" policies...aka the much-touted Public Option plans.

It's worth noting that this only amounts to around 720 people so far...but it's early yet.
WA's new quasi-Public Option is an important step, but it doesn't magically slash healthcare costs in half...because the main expense isn't on the *carrier* side, it's on the *provider rate* side. I watched this play out in real time last year: acasignups.net/19/04/29/washi…
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12 Nov
CALIFORNIA: @CoveredCA "officially launches" 2021 #ACA Open Enrollment...8 days after it officially launched: #GetCovered
acasignups.net/20/11/12/calif…
The most important points in this @CoveredCA press release:

--90% of CoveredCA enrollees receive financial assistance, including 41,000 *middle-income* enrollees who were previously ineligible due to earning >400% FPL
--the average subsidized enrollee is only paying $127/mo for #ACA coverage, with subsidies covering 80% of their premiums

--*unsubsidized* enrollees who shop around for a better deal will save an average 7.4% on their premiums in the same metal tier
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12 Nov
Again: Giving him side-eye or the evil eye or whatever isn’t gonna change the fact that he’s gonna have tremendous power over the Dem Senate caucus even if they flip both GA seats.

That may suck, but that’s where we are.
In 2018, a progressive tried primarying Manchin. She got 30%.

In 2020, the same progressive was the nominee against Capito. She got 27%.
#FunFact: Remember how the “Bernie woulda won” folks insisted that Bernie would have won West Virginia in 2016 because he won the primary there?

Hillary received 26.4%. This year, the Bernie-style progressive received...27%.
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