π£ REMINDER: Residents of 255 counties who earn less than $30K/yr are eligible for FREE (or near-free) GOLD #ACA PLANS...but they have to #GetCovered before midnight this Sunday!
Related to my Spielberg question earlier, I decided to break out all of his films by budget & global box office performance, adjusted for inflation.
This paints a dire picture of where the theatrical movie theater industry is in the COVID era.
Yes, MCU + a few smash hits here & there (Maverick, Avatar 2) are keeping things afloat, but Steven Fucking Spielberg has had 2 box office bombs in a row (even though both are highly praised & won/are winning a bunch of awards).
Even without adjusting for inflation, The Fabelmans--by all accounts a fantastic film--is the 2nd lowest-grossing film of his entire career, just barely ahead of his first theatrical release from nearly 50 years ago. Adjusted for inflation & it's dead last. Amazing.
#FunFact: There's 3 counties in the U.S. where a single 40-yr old earning $35,000/year qualifies for a FREE (as in, $0 premium) Gold* #ACA policy:
Santa Fe County, NM*
Fulton County, PA
Juniata County, PA
*(in NM it may be called a Turquoise plan)
cc: @bjdickmayhew@colinbaillio
There's 226 counties where a single 40-yr old earning $30K/yr qualifies for a free Gold plan.
There's 619 counties where they can get a free Gold plan if they earn $25K/yr.
Of course, if they earn less than $27,180/yr (200% FPL) they're also eligible for a dirt-cheap #SecretPlatinum plan as well, which they'd usually be better off with anyway.
And if they earn less than $20,385/yr, they're eligible for a FREE #SecretPlatinum plan.