EXAMPLE 1: A single 26-yr old living by themselves will save up to $123/mo on avg...and if they earn less than $19K/yr, they're eligible for a FREE #SecretPlatinum plan (technically it's Silver, but w/generous cost-sharing subsidies making it the equivalent of Platinum).
EXAMPLE 2: A single 40-yr old will again save up to $1,480/yr on avg., and again, can get a #SecretPlatinum plan either for FREE (if they earn up to $19K/yr) or for as little as $43/mo if they earn up to $25.5k/yr:
EXAMPLE 3: A single 50-yr old. At $51K/yr income, you start to see the infamous #SubsidyCliff...which was just eliminated by the #AmRescuePlan for the next 2 yrs. (Next step: Permanently #KillTheCliff!)
They'll save up to $270/mo or up to $3,200/yr.
EXAMPLE 4: A single 64-yr old, presumably biding their time until they qualify for Medicare. Before the #AmRescuePlan, if they earned just over $51K/yr, they'd have to pay as much as 25% of their income in premiums. Now they'll pay no more than 8.5%...saving up to $8,300/yr.
EXAMPLE 5: A 30-yr old Single Parent w/1 child. Families get complex because CHIP may be available, but otherwise they'll save up to nearly $2,000/yr. Again, they qualify for #SecretPlatinum for FREE under $26K or for less than $58/mo if they earn up to $34.8K/yr!
EXAMPLE 6: A family of four: A 40-yr old Couple with 2 kids. Again, disregarding CHIP, they'll save up to $610/mo or over $7,300/yr on average.
EXAMPLE 7: Empty Nesters: A 50-yr old couple w/1 college-age child on their plan. Before now, you can absolutely see why they called it a #SubsidyCliff. Thanks to the #AmRescuePlan, they could save up to $12,000/yr depending on where they live and their annual income:
EXAMPLE 8 (THIS ONE WILL BLOW YOUR MIND): A 60-yr old Couple. Until now, if they earned just a little over $70,000/yr, they'd have to pay an insane 33% of their *total income* on premiums alone.
At that income, the avg. 60-yr old couple will save over $17,000/yr. Not a typo.
Remember, any household earning less than 150% of the Federal Poverty Level qualifies for a FREE #SecretPremium (aka "Silver plan w/CSR"), while households earning 150 - 200% FPL can get #SecretPremium for less than 2% of their income: acasignups.net/21/04/01/milli…
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Here's an updated version of my "Dem Stop the Steal!" conspiracy theory thread which hopefully is less scattershot.
There's 3 main claims:
1. "How could there be 20M fewer voters than in 2020 w/"record-breaking turnout?"
2. "How could 15M fewer voter for Harris vs. Biden?"
3. "How could so many swing state voters vote for the Dem for Senate but not for Harris for POTUS?"
There's a few others, but these are the biggest ones, so let's tackle them first:
1. There weren't 20M fewer voters.
I've been compiling the data as it's being updated by CNN's tracking center via a Google spreadsheet. As of this writing, total POTUS turnout is ~147.6M, or ~10.8M lower than 2020's 158.4M.
Yesterday I posted a thread digging into the actual data behind the "20M missing votes!" and "15M fewer than Biden!" conspiracy theories being tossed around the past few days.
Via CNN, as of this writing, total 2024 POTUS votes are only down 13.9 million vs. 2020...with a likely 11.5 - 12.0 million ballots still to be counted across 30 states.
Total 2024 turnout will likely be ~156M or so...just a couple million fewer than 2020.
Again, using CNN's data & estimates, once every legitimate ballot has been counted, Trump will likely have around ~78 million votes to Harris' 75-76 million.
That'd mean he added ~4 million vs 2020 while she lost ~5-6 million.
...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/