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And the ACA market has a lot of those from the upper income enrollees

The Declaration of Independence, the American Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Liberty and equality for all in a constitutional republic. Not blood and soil nationalism. America is not an ethnostate where your rights depend on ancestry.

Birthright citizenship isn't even just an American (USA) value, it's a New World value. Turning against it is insane to me.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Useful reminder from @mtkonczal.bsky.social: What looks like people having a lot fewer children than they did 25 years ago, is really just people having children later. mikekonczal.substack.com/p/the-eldest... (What if any policy or political significance this has, we will leave for another time.)

It's interesting that the French also use a means-tested program for free healthcare that has a low threshold. The main difference being that it's mainly supplemental. The closest analogy in the US would be Medicare-Medicaid enrollees? www.commonwealthfund.org/internationa...

This channel, Tasting History, and others are some real faves of mine. Medieval people didn't have iPhones and didn't read. They were still pretty clever. youtu.be/rb0CNaiVmfg?...

Yellowface and Babel are some of the better books I've read in years. Y'all should give them a shot!

New analysis from @kff.org estimates the number of individuals, including citizen children, who may disenroll from Medicaid or CHIP due to public charge and other immigration-related fears. A potential disenrollment rate of 10%-30% could see 1.3M to 4M people disenroll.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

God, I wish. Apparently, we don't even want to subsidize NPR and PBS. Though looking at universities, it would probably get used to manipulate the content.

Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.

Solar power made up 9.7% of US electricity this September, up from 7.6% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.3% of US electricity, a record high!

Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

And that's considering the modal ACA enrollee has better than a Platinum plan, the median has a weak platinum plan, the mean has a gold plan, and ~60% have a gold plan equivalent or better. And ACA plans on average cost about 64% what ESI plans cost pre-subsidy. acasignups.net/25/10/24/kff...

Personally, I think Basic Health Plans are a better way to improve the ACA for states than public options. Especially since two-thirds of people on the ACA would qualify and you can expand further with 1332 waivers. www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...

First attempt, but not bad

Making beef bourguignon, wish me luck

💬 Viewpoint: @kff.org polling indicates nearly three-quarters of US adults support congressional extension of #ACA premium tax credits, making health care affordability a decisive economic issue in upcoming elections and policy debates. ja.ma/4oZfvaB

I love Thanksgiving, and people that don't like turkey are vibe killers

Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums. @reuters.com $XLV www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Here's @charlesgaba.com on the Problem Solver's ACA subsidy extension bill

📣 Baltimore's seen a 61% drop in homicides in 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀! Mayor Scott, State’s Attorney Bates, local leaders, and members of the community are showing the nation what putting public safety first looks like. Through partnership, our state will keep making all of our communities safer.

Narrative violation: Vermont was an independent Republic for longer than Texas. They even had a separate negotiated peace with Britain.

With the mini-burst of proposals to replace enhanced PTCs with spending accounts like FSAs, keep in mind that this would *absolutely wallop* older people with middle incomes—say a 63-year-old earning $65K—who are among the most dependent on enhanced PTCs. 🧵1/

Modifying the employer insurance mandate to offer cheaper premiums and cost-sharing rates according to their income would be a headache. It'd at least make things better for people locked out of other markets though. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

One reason why any healthy democracy needs at least two relatively healthy political parties where each sometimes wins an election, and neither destroys the democratic system when it does, is that winning elections is hard. The idea that everyone who ever lost an election is stupid is not correct.

You could look at any X or Y map and Maryland will just stare at you and say "Yes"

IMO, the intent of benchmarking premiums at the second lowest cost silver plan on the ACA marketplace was already to encourage shopping around. Whether that be to save yourself premium dollars for cheaper insurance (and the government) or to spend more using all your own dollars.

I belong in forever fall in the Northeast imo

This kinda thing didn't happen for 5 years. It just doesn't happen with Medicare, Medcaid/CHIP, or employer coverage. I don't think it's a good idea for it to happen to people that have to buy their own insurance.

at this point, Los Angeles is the most NIMBY city in the country. I am not a socialist myself, but give me a socialist YIMBY like Zohran or Katie Wilson over a liberal NIMBY like Karen Bass any day of the week.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Everyone should watch Death By Lightning and learn the incredibly important history of 1880s America. Also, it's good. They kinda merged 1876 and 1880 and that's weird.

There's an economist-y response to claim people should get tax-free accounts to pay for services. Two issues: 1) the poor are way more price sensitive 2) "tax free" discounts in progressive tax systems just throw money at people that already have the ability to pay

On the one hand, I love that artists are telling Ticket Master to go fuck itself. On the other hand, if I don't get these tickets, I WOULD pay more to get them!

Democrats didn't funnel subsidy dollars directly to insurers because of their great love for industry. It's just the approach that's most user-friendly and administratively efficient.

Sharing this piece from my colleague @gidlukens.bsky.social on the problems with HSAs. www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...

Some books I really should read ...

Personally, I think alternatives to the ACA worth exploring are national insurance (actually existing Medicare for All), Medicare for All, or Medicaid for All (Canada). I think an NHS would never be well-funded in the US and I think Singapore's model (HSAs) suck. But that's just me.

FWIW, this is for a 35yo making $62K/year in VA paying the full cost of the plan. Plans like this are somewhat common in Switzerland with a higher OOP max here. I think with some asteriks, the ACA functions like the Swiss model. If you think this is bad, emulate something else.

In all the years I have worked in health policy GOP/conservative proposals always boil down to the same ideas: block grant/cap #Medicaid, Medicare premium support, unregulated individual health insurance markets and tax-favored accounts like Health Savings Accounts. So we’re back to HSAs this week.

Look, not all ideas are winners