I can't begin to tell you what a #BigFrigginDeal this is if you don't have healthcare coverage and received unemployment benefits for even a single week in 2021. You can STILL enroll in practically FREE coverage for the rest of this year.
Premiums: $0 (that's right...FREE.)
Deductible: A few hundred bucks at most
Other Out of Pocket expenses: A few hundred bucks at most.
As long as all services are in network, you're limited to extremely low out of pocket expenses.
Most critically, this unemployment benefit deal is valid in EVERY state, including those stuck in the Medicaid Gap in Texas, Florida, etc. It’s only good for the rest of 2021 but it’s still much better than nothing.
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🚨 NEW: The CDC has updated their COVID Community Profile Report w/Florida's weekly *county-level* death breakout. This allows me to update the bar graph w/the death rate since June by Trump 2020 vote for 99.4% of the U.S. population (50 states + DC only) in two different ways.
🚨 If you go by flat 10-point election increments, the death rate since 6/30/21 in the reddest/Trumpiest counties are over NINE TIMES HIGHER than in the bluest counties.
🚨 However, only 116K people live in the former & just 1.7M live in the latter, so I've also run it a second way.
If you break the population into 10 brackets of ~33.1 million apiece from blue to red, the death rate for the Trumpiest 10% is *still* 5.1x higher:
HAVING SAID THAT, there's nothing stopping *employers* from increasing the contribution level of their employees towards their premiums, which is what Delta is doing.
Also, as @ErinBurnett notes in the original tweet, COVID patients *are* being charged a ton in other ways now.
🧵 THREAD: If I'm reading the @uscensusbureau's data correctly, White (alone) people now make up 61.2% of the total U.S. population. 1/
According to @CDCgov data, assuming I'm reading it correctly, it looks like "Non-Hispanic Whites" also make up almost exactly 61.2% of all COVID deaths to date.
"But wait! I thought COVID was killing Black, Hispanic, etc. people at a disproportionately higher rate!" 2/
Well, that WAS true for most of the pandemic to date...but (again assuming I'm reading the CDC data correctly), it looks like that has changed over time.
From the beginning of 2020 up through Election Day, it looks like only 54.4% of all COVID deaths were among White people. 3/
⚠️ Annnnnnnd there it is: COVID death rate by county since 6/30/21 by Trump 2020 vote, now including Florida, updated as of 9/15/21.
Note that besides Nebraska, this doesn’t include several thousand deaths whose county of residence is unknown. Also, some of Florida’s deaths to date still won’t show up for another couple of weeks.
FWIW, the death rate in the reddest bracket is 8.2x higher than in the bluest bracket. Of course, there's only a tiny number of people living in either of those, so it's probably more representative to look at the 5.5x ratio between the 80-90 & 10-20 brackets.