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📣🎉 AND HERE...WE...GO!!

My Official 2022 #ACA Open Enrollment Guide
(developing...I'm running a bit late with it this year):
acasignups.net/21/11/01/and-w…
Here's 12 Things to Remember when you go to #GetCovered:

1. MOST WILL HAVE MORE TIME BUT YOU STILL SHOULDN'T DELAY!

The final deadline has been extended by a full month in most states, but in order to have your coverage start IN JANUARY you should still enroll by DECEMBER 15th!
2. AVOID JUNK PLANS & SCAMS; MAKE SURE YOU ENROLL IN AN OFFICIAL ACA POLICY.

There's lots of questionable website selling questionable policies these days. Stick to *official* ACA exchanges or *authorized* enrollment partners only!
3. OFF-EXCHANGE ENROLLEES: THIS IS THE YEAR TO SWITCH TO ON-EXCHANGE COVERAGE!

Thanks to the #AmRescuePlan, millions who are paying full price for off-exchange plans are now eligible for enhanced #ACA subsidies...but they have to enroll ON-EXCHANGE to take advantage of this!
4. MILLIONS MORE NOW QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL HELP...AND THOSE WHO ALREADY DID QUALIFY FOR MORE!

Middle-income folks had to pay full price, & help for many lower-income folks still wasn't generous enough. Thanks to the #AmRescuePlan, #ACA plans are now affordable for *everyone*!
5. TEN STATES OFFER *ADDITIONAL* SAVINGS *ON TOP OF* EXPANDED #ARP SUBSIDIES!

In addition to the expanded/enhanced savings thanks to the #AmRescuePlan, 10 states have their own programs offering additional financial help for lower- (& sometimes middle-income) enrollees!
6. FOR LOWER-INCOME ENROLLEES, SILVER IS THE NEW PLATINUM!

If you earn < 200% FPL (~$26K if single; ~$52K for a family of 4), make sure to enroll in a SILVER plan to get SUBSTANTIALLY lower out of pocket costs!

"CSR Silver 94" or "CSR Silver 87" are effectively PLATINUM plans!
7. FOR MIDDLE-INCOME ENROLLEES, GOLD PLANS MAY COST LESS THAN SILVER!

It's a long, strange story, but the bottom line is that if you earn *over* 200% FPL, some Gold plans may not only be a better value than Silver, they may actually cost less in premiums...or even cost $0/month!
8. FIVE STATES* STILL HAVE THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL MANDATE!

The *federal* penalty may be gone, but CA, DC, MA, NJ & RI all still charge a financial penalty for residents who don't have #ACA-compliant healthcare coverage (unless they have an exemption).

*(I know DC isn't a state.)
9. MANY STATES/COUNTIES HAVE MORE CHOICES THAN EVER.

The days of worrying about "bare counties" are gone. Dozens of insurance carriers are expanding their coverage areas in 2022, entering new counties & states while offering more plan options.

Of course that can be confusing...
...which is why it's great that...

10. THE NAVIGATOR PROGRAM IS BACK AT FULL STRENGTH, BABY!

The HHS Dept. has upped grant funding to dozens of qualified health insurance navigator programs nationally for 2022... especially for underserved communities. Help & guidance is here!
11. ABOVE ALL ELSE: DO *NOT* LET YOURSELF BE PASSIVELY "AUTO-RENEWED!"

It's always been a good idea to *actively* shop around to see whether there's a better value available, but that's more true than ever this year! Don't leave money on the table; SHOP AROUND & save!
Whoops! I thought I had 12 items listed but I guess I only wrote up 11.

OK, here's #12: If you find this thread or my work at ACA Signups useful & want to support it, you can do so here either one-time or monthly, thanks!

P.S. make sure to #GetCovered!
acasignups.net/support

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May 12
Let's see here...a semi trailer (lower right) is roughly 50' long, so the venue is roughly 9 trailers x 4 trailers, or 450' x 200', or 90,000 sq. feet.

Of course the rear 1/3 is almost empty, but there's also some people lined up in the upper left, so call it ~80% full...

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So, that's perhaps ~72,000 square feet of "tightly packed" people. According to this article, in a tightly-packed crowd the avg. person takes up ~4.5 sq. feet.

That would mean perhaps 16,000 people.

.cleveland.com/datacentral/20…
Now, the trailers I used are slightly closer to the camera than the people in the crowd, so I may have to adjust for scale a bit. If we bump it up by, say, 25% you get 20,000 people or so.
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Mar 20
🧵 People have asked me why I started an organized project to raise money *directly* for Democratic candidates up & down the ballot when there's already so many other organizations out there doing this. There's a couple of reasons. 1/
The first is that most of the existing organizations/PACs/etc seem to (in my view) *either* focus ONLY on the true swing districts *or* they raise money for races which are clearly unwinnable without being up front about how long the odds in those races are. 2/
I try to walk the line between these--for district-level races I cast my net wider than most "tossup only!" advocates, but not absurdly wide; for statewide races I *do* include deep red states but also make it absolutely clear that those races are *very* long shots. 3/
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Mar 7
📣 I'm just $6,300 away from raising $300,000 for Democrats up & down the ballot!

Help me push the total over the top by the end of this evening's #SOTU!

Pick a page & donate today!

(all donations go to the campaigns listed; none goes to me)
#Blue24

Blue24.org
📣 HELP KEEP THE SENATE BLUE (& also chip in for President Biden) HERE:

.secure.actblue.com/donate/senateb…
📣 HELP FLIP THE HOUSE BLUE (& also chip in for President Biden) HERE:

.secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
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Dec 16, 2023
A little fun Die Hard trivia for those who don’t know:

The first Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. In the novel McClain’s character was named Joe Leland. This was a sequel to a 1966 novel by Thorp called The Detective. 1/
The Detective had been made into a film starring Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland in 1968.

This means Bruce Willis plays the same character as Frank Sinatra.

In fact, the studio was contractually required to offer the role to Sinatra if he wanted it. Sinatra was 73 at the time.
As for the novel Nothing Lasts Forever (title since changed to “Die Hard”), it follows most of the same storyline and characters, but with a few VERY important differences…

1. Leland is about 15 years older

2. Holly is his daughter, not his wife
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Dec 6, 2023
Holy fucking shit.

This may be the first and likely only time that I give @RepStefanik sincere praise.

As she openly states, this was the easiest softball question she possibly could have asked, and all three of them completely flubbed it.
The question she asked: "Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university's code of conduct regarding bullying & harassment?"

The answer is YES, for fuck's sake.
"Are puppies cute?"
"Yes."

"Do owls exist?"
"Yes."

"Are there hats?"
"Yes."

"Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your code of conduct?"
"Yes."

The only way this could be more disturbing would be if it DOESN'T violate their code of conduct.
Read 6 tweets
Nov 15, 2023
“Anonymously signed.”

ANONYMOUSLY. SIGNED.
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How does the @nytimes know that these are actual federal officials who actually signed it if they did so “anonymously?”

Does that mean the Times is redacting their names? Or does it just say “signed, 400 officials” at the bottom of the letter?
@nytimes I’m not being snarky here—I can’t read the original NY Times article without a subscription; do they clarify how they verified that these 400 people actually are federal officials and that they did in fact sign off on the letter in it?
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