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20 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Fun fact: “NewsBusters” is the only right-wing rag which has ever published an actual hit piece on me. They cleverly called it “Gaba In, Gaba Out” because “Gaba” kind of sounds a little like “Garbage”, see?
The premise of their deep investigation of me was that I’m not an unbiased source (which I never claimed to be) and that I’m active in local Democratic organizations (as I clearly had stated in my bio). Fine detective work, fellas.
Ah, here it is...
newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gl…
(FWIW, in the end, 8,019,763 people selected plans during the first ACA open enrollment period, of which around 85% did indeed pay their first premium, a rate which averages over 90% these days).

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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
21 Jan
The responses to this are absurdly stupid. We passed 410,000 deaths yesterday. Anyone dying for the next several weeks contracted #COVID19 before 1/20, and the worst daily toll will likely hit in around a week (~5,000).

2/28 = 38 days from now. 90K/38 = ~2,400/day.
Even if Biden were somehow able to magically bring the total number of new cases down to 0 *TODAY* that'd still be a good 75,000 more Americans dying by mid-February.

And we've been *averaging* 220,000 cases/day in January so far.
Let's say that Biden's #COVID19 team were able to (again, magically) reduce the number of new cases by 5% *each and every day* *starting today* (again, magic!). That would still mean another 130,000 or so deaths by the end of March (at which point it'd be down to ~250/day).
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21 Jan
Dems should simply say that they'll keep the filibuster until the GOP abuses it again, which will take about 5 minutes anyway.

A lot of kabuki theater here, of course, since several Dems (Manchin, Sinema, etc.) are opposed to killing the filibuster outright anyway.
Personally, at the bare minimum they should flip the filibuster rule around so that you have to have 40 *affirmative* "nay" votes in order to block a bill instead of 60 affirmative "yea" votes. This may sound like a distinction w/out a difference but it matters.
Right now members of the filibustering side get to use it as a shield--they never go on the record as formally opposing a popular bill because there was no floor vote in the first place. This at least forces them to own their vote.
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
21 Jan
In 2015 I wrote a piece which looked at the naming/branding of every state Medicaid program in the country. 1/
Out of over 106 Medicaid programs, only *15* actually have the word "MEDICAID" in their name.

Most states either use an equally-bland/generic name like "Medical Assistance" or use cutesy branding like "BadgerCare." 2/

acasignups.net/15/09/18/whats…
The upside of using a soft 'n fuzzy name like "BadgerCare" or Healthy Michigan" is that, like the "kynect" saga in Kentucky, it makes it easier to get people to actually sign up for the program, which is the most important goal. 3/
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Charles #GetCovered-ba Profile picture
21 Jan
Since Ted Cruz is trending tonight for his idiotic "Paris Accord must mean it's only for people who live in Paris!" tweet, a reminder that neither Cruz *nor* Trump supporters are exactly the brightest bulbs in the socket.

Example #1: acasignups.net/21/01/21/topic…
Example #2: acasignups.net/21/01/21/which…
Example #3 (this one was more depressing than amusing, really):
acasignups.net/21/01/21/most-…
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20 Jan
No clue how @SenSchumer will do on actual legislation, but he's doing a good job with this speech...on Pres. Biden, VP Harris, Sens. Ossoff, Warnock & Padilla, & the Dem Senate Majority.

Shouldn't the @senatemajldr handle be shifted from McConnell to Sen. Schumer, @Twitter?
NO LONGER ACCURATE.
Senate MINORITY leader Mitch McConnell is now pushing hard on the "bipartisan/unity" angle.

OK, Mitch.
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19 Jan
"The Trump presidency is over, and Obamacare is still alive" vox.com/policy-and-pol… via @voxdotcom
Before 11/08/16, I was secretly planning on shutting down (or at least mothballing) ACASignups.net as soon as the 4th #ACA Open Enrollment period was over. Traffic had been gradually dropping off as people got used to the ACA & it started to fade from the headlines.
My official day job as a website developer had suffered. What was supposed to have been a 6-month hobby in my spare time had turned into a full-time job, and I had lost web clients along the way. I figured it would be time to wind down ACA Signups & refocus on my web business.
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