⚠️ In most states, you only have until midnight on Saturday, Jan. 15th to enroll!
Exceptions:
--MA: You have until 1/23
--CA, NJ, NY, RI: You have until 1/31
--ID: The deadline already passed unless you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period.
⚠️ 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.
The next 2 tweets link to the official ACA exchanges:
MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL HELP THIS YEAR...& THOSE WHO ALREADY DID CAN GET 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.
IF YOU'RE ENROLLED "OFF-EXCHANGE" YOU CAN PROBABLY SAVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS JUST BY SWITCHING TO AN *ON*-EXCHANGE PLAN. Usually even the exact same plan, through the same carrier, with the same provider network.
To Explain: Many people enrolled in #ACA-compliant individual market plans, but did so OFF-exchange 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 RIGHT NOW!
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!
"OK, but WHICH plan should I choose?"
Well, I can't answer that for you, but *generally*:
--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 both dramatic premium *and* cost sharing savings.
If you earn < 200% FPL, look for Silver plans with the "CSR" or "extra savings" label.
Officially they're called "Silver CSR 94" or "Silver CSR 87" plans, but I call them #SecretPlatinum plans because they're effectively Platinum plans (extremely low deductibles/co-pays).
What if you earn MORE than 200% FPL (again: ~$26K/yr if you're single; ~$51K for a family of 4)?
That's where it gets a lot trickier; depending on your situation, you might be better off w/Bronze, Silver, Gold or even Platinum. HOWEVER...
...many WHO EARN OVER 200% FPL can find GOLD plans which actually cost LESS than SILVER plans, even though the Gold may have lower cost sharing! In some cases it may cost NOTHING in premiums after ACA subsidies!
Yes, it's a long, stupid story. No, you don't want to hear it.
⚠️ Remember the federal #ACA "individual mandate" penalty? That's gone, but several states have their own financial penalty for residents who don't have healthcare coverage (if they don't qualify for an exception).
CA, DC, MA, NJ & RI residents need to be aware of this!
❓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 1/01/22 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 FEB. 1st.
CAVEAT: Your deductible may reset.
Hooray! There's more carriers & plans available than ever before!
Boo! That means more confusing choices than ever before!
Hooray! Visit LocalHelp.HealthCare.Gov (or the equivalent for your state's exchange) for assisters, navigators, brokers or agents near you who can help!
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/