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2 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
📣 Weekly Update: Which *COUNTIES* have the highest cumulative per capita rates of #COVID19 cases & deaths?
acasignups.net/21/04/02/weekl…
Counties w/highest cumul. per capita cases:
1. Crowley County, CO (35.3% of pop)
2. Chattahoochee County, GA
3. Bent County, CO
4. Dewey County, SD
5. Lincoln County, AR
6. Lake County, TN
7. Norton County, KS
8. Bon Homme County, SD
9. Trousdale County, TN
10. Buffalo County, SD
Counties w/highest cumul. per capita deaths:
1. Foard County, TX (0.87% of the population)
2. Jerauld County, SD
3. Galax, VA
4. Emporia, VA
5. Gove County, KS
6. Gregory County, SD
7. Hancock County, GA
8. Iron County, WI
9. McMullen County, TX
10. Molley County, TX
Foard County, TX has taken over the #1 spot from Jerauld County. 1 out of every 116 residents of Foard County has died of #COVID19 (10 people out of 1,155).
The BIG change this week: The 100 counties w/the highest death rate have shifted from voting for Trump by 20 pts to voting for BIDEN by 21 pts.

How did that happen? Simple: The Bronx has moved back into the Top 100. It has a higher population than THE OTHER 99 COUNTIES COMBINED.
Nationally, however, the ratio of both case and death rates have been extremely stable since the beginning of 2021: Cases are still 7.4% higher per capita in the Red Counties and deaths are still 2.4% higher there.

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📣 Now that the #AmRescuePlan's expanded #ACA subsidies are live in most states, I'm reposting this thread with some examples of how much YOU could save if you #GetCovered today!
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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:
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I've deleted a hastily-posted, kneejerk response tweet which I shouldn't have posted. I'm just pissed as hell at GOP legislators in states like WY & MO who either rejected Medicaid expansion or are flat-out overriding their own voters on it (as well as FL & TX, of course).
Just yesterday, a 5-member Wyoming Senate committee rejected expanding Medicaid to 25,000 of their lowest-income residents *again* in a 3-2 vote, even though it would cost the state NOTHING for the first 3 years or so & only 10% of the cost after that. acasignups.net/21/03/31/3-wyo…
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📣🎉 #ACA enrollment is BACK, and this time it's a #BigFrigginDeal!

Here's 10 important things to remember when you #GetCovered!

acasignups.net/21/03/31/aca-e…
1. MILLIONS WHO DIDN'T QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL HELP BEFORE DO NOW...AND IT COULD SAVE YOU *THOUSANDS* OF DOLLARS!

(and those who already qualified now qualify for *more* help!)
This table shows the financial help sliding scale under the #ACA (which cuts off help for middle-class enrollees)...and under the #AmRescuePlan, which covers 100% of the premiums for millions of people & caps them at no more than 8.5% *EVEN FOR MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICANS*:
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Wyoming Republicans just turned down 2 years of free healthcare for 25,000 of their lowest-income residents *and* an extra $30 million to boot.
The final WY Senate vote was 3 to 2 against. 2 of them voted Yes; thank you to @fbald1Senator and Sen. Dan Furphy.

The three who just gave 25,000 Wyomingites the finger are @AnthonyBouchard, Troy McKeown and Lynn Hutchings. Image
I have to admit that Sen. Hutchings seems to stand out as a Wyoming Republican Senator, so I did a quick search. This is what came up:
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This is a long, wonky post, but it also includes the simplest explanation I could give of how #SilverLoading works and why a lot of people were eligible for $0 premium Bronze or *Gold* plans even before the #AmRescuePlan expanded them further.

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In short: Here's some sample 2017 Bronze, Silver & Gold premium & enrollment data. Let's say 2018 medical trend went up 5%. Meanwhile, let's say 1/2 the enrollees received CSR help averaging $2,400 apiece.

That's $120M in CSR reimbursements owed to the carriers from the feds. Image
In late 2017, Donald Trump cuts off CSR reimbursements, figuring this will cause millions of low-income enrollees to lose their subsidies *or* for all the carriers to drop out of the ACA market (causing it to "blow up" and "collapse"), or both, to avoid eating a $120M loss.
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