Many people have asked me why the Biden Admin didn’t move on this LAST year. There’s two reasons I can think of: First, the process is a long & convoluted one; it might simply have taken a full year to get to this point. 1/
https://twitter.com/Katie_Keith/status/1503060830090375174
The other is more pragmatic: They were hoping to have #BuildBackBetter passed and signed into law by now. The CBO score *without* the family glitch will likely be billions of dollars higher than with it still in place. They might’ve been hoping to lock in ARP legislatively first.
With the #FamilyGlitch fixed, up to 5.1 million more Americans would become eligible for #ACA subsidies. Assuming half of them took this up, that’d increase enrollment by another ~18% or so. CBO scored permanent ARP subsidies at ~$220B over a decade, so that’d go up ~$40B or so.
This is actually a GOOD thing of course (not the extra $40B; the fact that several million more people would either get healthcare coverage or dramatically reduce their healthcare coverage costs.)
Here’s a writeup I did on the #FamilyGlitch last year, with an assist from @LouiseNorris & @amylotven. Looks like they’re finally going ahead with fixing it! acasignups.net/21/10/29/good-…
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