📣 In most states, you only have until midnight on Saturday, Jan. 15th to enroll!
Exceptions:
--MASSACHUSETTS: You have until 1/23
--CA, NJ, NY, RI: You have until 1/31
--ID: Unless you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period, you already missed the deadline.
📣 Avoid scams, junk plans etc. by only enrolling via an AUTHORIZED #ACA exchange website!
These include either the OFFICIAL ACA exchanges *or* APPROVED 3rd-party brokers such as HealthSherpa, W3LL or StrideHealth.
A list of the official ACA exchanges follows downthread:
FAR MORE PEOPLE QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL HELP THIS YEAR...AND THOSE WHO ALREADY DID ARE ELIGIBLE FOR FAR *MORE* HELP.
No, seriously: If you've looked into an #ACA plan in the past only to find out you had to pay full price or the subsidies weren't generous enough, TRY AGAIN *NOW*.
⚠️ 2022 is *THE* year to #GetCovered via an #ACA exchange plan! The American Rescue Plan DRAMATICALLY expanded & enhanced ACA financial help.
If #BuildBackBetter goes through, that expansion will be made permanent...but if not, it's a one-time thing, so take advantage of it NOW.
HOW MUCH could you save? Well, the amount varies greatly depending on where you live, how old you are, what your household makeup is and how much you earn, but here's some typical examples: acasignups.net/21/04/02/how-m…
IF YOU'RE ENROLLED "OFF-EXCHANGE" FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SWITCH TO AN *ON*-EXCHANGE PLAN. LIKE, *RIGHT NOW*.
⚠️ Many people enrolled in #ACA-compliant individual market plans (good!) but who did so OFF-exchange (bad!) because *in previous years* they earned too much to qualify for financial help.
Well, THIS YEAR many of them DO qualify...but ONLY if they SWITCH to an ON-exchange plan!
Some states are offering ADDITIONAL savings on #ACA plans!
If you live in CO, CT, MN, MD, NJ, NY, MA, VT or WA, you might qualify for extra savings!
REMEMBER:
--If you earn LESS than 200% FPL (~$26K if single, ~$51K for a family of 4), choose a SILVER plan, which will qualify you for MASSIVE savings on deductibles, co-pays etc.
They're called "Silver CSR 94" or "Silver CSR 87" plans, but I call them #SecretPlatinum plans!
--If you earn MORE than 200% FPL, it gets trickier, but I strongly recommend checking to see if there are GOLD plans which cost the same or even *less* than SILVER plans!
There's a long, dumb story behind this, and it's not available everywhere, but check into it.
Remember the federal #ACA "individual mandate" penalty? Yeah, that's long gone now, but several states have their own financial penalty for residents who don't have healthcare coverage (& who don't qualify for an exception).
CA, DC, MA, NJ & RI residents beware!
WHAT IF YOU ENROLLED ALREADY, BUT IT TURNS OUT YOU CHOSE THE WRONG PLAN?
GOOD NEWS: You can still *switch* to a *different* plan as long as you do so by the final deadline!
If you enrolled in a policy which started Jan. 1st but there are issues with your provider network, drug formulary, etc. you can switch to a *different* plan between now and the deadline in your state.
The new plan will take effect FEBRUARY 1st.
Good news! There's more carriers & plans available than ever before!
Bad news: That means more confusing choices than ever before!
Good news: Visit LocalHelp.HealthCare.Gov for assisters, navigators, brokers or agents near you who can help!
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...
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.
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.
🧵 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/
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…
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?