Republicans claim they are pro-life. What they really are is pro-death that is completely avoidable. They would rather watch people die, then lift their fingers to do squat about it. Just like with guns “thoughts and prayers” “this isn’t the time to talk about it” bullshit never saved the life of a single person. Today’s murder of 2 students and critical condition of 6 more, is a never ending assurance in this country due to the lies and rewriting of the 2nd amendment by the NRA. and the republicans who get massive donations from them.
1,500 a year? I just got an ambulance ride to a hospital less than 4 miles away. No frills; strap me in; slide me in; take a ride; slide me out, and send me a 4k bill that I owe 290 on. Without the Medicare Advantage plan, only The Good Lord knows I'd owe in addition to the premium.
We knew this would happen. We knew that the MAGATs were lying. We knew this would happen if the Dems capitulated.
So GLAD those 8 Dem senators CAVED and voted with Rs to reopen the government (with the provision that another vote to restore ACA funding JUST MIGHT WORK in Dec 🙄)!
Here’s a reminder to primary the following feckless corporate-owned toadies:
1. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
2. Angus King (I-ME) – Independent who caucuses with Democrats
The insurance industry has thrived in America, usually with billions in unpaid revenue. There are few claims insurance companies won’t fight not to pay. People are dropping their coverage at a staggering pace, and Republicans are pushing them off a cliff. Insurance doesn’t work if only the rich (who can afford to be self-insured) have coverage. It’s amazing as powerful as the insurance lobby is that they weren’t successful getting access to subsidies. Don’t they want the government money? Giving people $1500 doesn’t do much, because the vast majority won’t spend it on that if the money comes with no strings. If it’s a voucher toward coverage, $1500 isn’t enough to cover most limited policies.
This is partly just a grudge against Obama, but it’s not just Republicans disdain for Barack, they have disdain for Americans too.
Please vote out anyone who doesn't support extending the ACA until this is figured out. That is what we are paying these obstructionists to do, figure shit out. What are healthcare facilities saying? They stand to lose too. As well as every business associated with. Let your reps know now and loudly who they are working for. Not their version of reality . OURS. You will be voted out.
You have willfully ignored this looming issue. The reddest states have high needs which really makes no sense. But not much does these days.
Senator: First of all, I want to thank you for your letter and your thoughts on impeaching Trump. At least you are thinking about it. Secondly: It may have not escaped your notice that RFK Jr. and his ignorance is dismantling our health care system, and Republicans in Congress have no plan to control costs, except to throw out the ACA because Obama managed to get something passed after Hilary Clinton couldn't. I do not know if my health costs will go up, but I am positive that yours won't while 42 million Americans and more will be priced out of health care and/or find their hospitals and clinics closed.
It took 150 years to defeat childhood diseases and build the public health care system, now, between private equity firms and RFK Jr. and Trump you Republicans have decided that our tax money is wasted on a health care system and would be better spent bombing fishermen in the Caribbean and sending aircraft carriers to threaten Venezuela. And some people wonder why Canadians and Western Europeans want nothing to do with us anymore. I don't. I know why. Trump and his gang of thieves, the Supreme Court, and every Republican congressperson just don't give a shit.
Past performance suggests, concerning Collins and Murkowski, that if their votes would’ve made a difference, then their votes would have been different—or they would’ve been absent, or abstained. Having a conscience is performative for those two.
First of all ACA is not health care or health care insurance. It's a tax crediting strategy that makes buying health care insurance from private insurance carriers affordable You spend pre tax dollars to buy health insurance and you get a tax credit., It's really no different from dozens of other tax credits you can take advantage of. Nobody is raising bloody hell about any of them
Since no one really understands how ACA plans work, and they work pretty well, why the hatred of them? One simple reason,,, somebody decided to call it "Obamacare"
What I didn’t understand about ACA insurance is that it’s not just higher monthly premiums - it’s the income limits.
At my age, if I earn enough to cover my basic bills, I lose the subsidy and my insurance jumps to about $1,000/month and I have to repay the help I got.
The result is simple: I can’t afford my bills, and trying to make more money actually makes it worse.
When the Dems held out for the subsidies and Chump cut SNAP, Tapper got on with a Dem rep and basically said, "Aren't you starving poor people with your actions? The Republicans said they'd hold a vote. Isn't your refusal just starving poor people?"
Now, he can get a Dem on and say, "Shouldn't you have held out on the CR despite the harm it was causing to poor people compared to the harm this will do to the entire country?"
Either HDHPs have drastically changed over 10 years or my employer was an idiot. I always was $$$ way ahead with the HDHP vs the LDHP. Most non-Medicare plans come with what is known as an Out-of-Pocket Maximum (OOP). This number matters more than the deductible. My strategy was to keep the fixed cost (premiums) lowest. Annual premium for L were $5,038 in 2020, for H were $703. OOP-L were $2,000, H - $3,000. They paid 80% up to the OOP for both plans, then 100%. For both plans, the deductible counted toward the OOP max. So the most I could possibly be on the hook for OOP all-in was $3,703. For H it was $7,038. Then figure the ~$1,400 tax savings and I'm down to $2,303. If you were lucky and spent zero of the $3,000 variable OOP cost because you didn't see the doc that year, then you're in the money by $697. Then you contribute to the HSA and invest for dividends, and have income. The LDLP folks got none of this gravy. I wish these reports on the horrors of HDHPs would dig down into some of this math, it's not that hard. The NPR report doesn't, it's pretty useless. We had both plan options to consider then, not sure how often that exists now.
Republicans claim they are pro-life. What they really are is pro-death that is completely avoidable. They would rather watch people die, then lift their fingers to do squat about it. Just like with guns “thoughts and prayers” “this isn’t the time to talk about it” bullshit never saved the life of a single person. Today’s murder of 2 students and critical condition of 6 more, is a never ending assurance in this country due to the lies and rewriting of the 2nd amendment by the NRA. and the republicans who get massive donations from them.
1,500 a year? I just got an ambulance ride to a hospital less than 4 miles away. No frills; strap me in; slide me in; take a ride; slide me out, and send me a 4k bill that I owe 290 on. Without the Medicare Advantage plan, only The Good Lord knows I'd owe in addition to the premium.
We knew this would happen. We knew that the MAGATs were lying. We knew this would happen if the Dems capitulated.
People have no education or training how to select a health plan. We don't know what we don't know. It's a ludicrous idea.
Here's what aggravates me - all the MSM headlines are going to read CONGRESS fails to get the subsidies extended. It's infuriating.
So GLAD those 8 Dem senators CAVED and voted with Rs to reopen the government (with the provision that another vote to restore ACA funding JUST MIGHT WORK in Dec 🙄)!
Here’s a reminder to primary the following feckless corporate-owned toadies:
1. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
2. Angus King (I-ME) – Independent who caucuses with Democrats
3. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
4. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
5. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
6. Jacky Rosen (D-NV)
7. John Fetterman (D-PA)
8. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
The insurance industry has thrived in America, usually with billions in unpaid revenue. There are few claims insurance companies won’t fight not to pay. People are dropping their coverage at a staggering pace, and Republicans are pushing them off a cliff. Insurance doesn’t work if only the rich (who can afford to be self-insured) have coverage. It’s amazing as powerful as the insurance lobby is that they weren’t successful getting access to subsidies. Don’t they want the government money? Giving people $1500 doesn’t do much, because the vast majority won’t spend it on that if the money comes with no strings. If it’s a voucher toward coverage, $1500 isn’t enough to cover most limited policies.
This is partly just a grudge against Obama, but it’s not just Republicans disdain for Barack, they have disdain for Americans too.
Please vote out anyone who doesn't support extending the ACA until this is figured out. That is what we are paying these obstructionists to do, figure shit out. What are healthcare facilities saying? They stand to lose too. As well as every business associated with. Let your reps know now and loudly who they are working for. Not their version of reality . OURS. You will be voted out.
You have willfully ignored this looming issue. The reddest states have high needs which really makes no sense. But not much does these days.
To Senator Budd this morning.
Senator: First of all, I want to thank you for your letter and your thoughts on impeaching Trump. At least you are thinking about it. Secondly: It may have not escaped your notice that RFK Jr. and his ignorance is dismantling our health care system, and Republicans in Congress have no plan to control costs, except to throw out the ACA because Obama managed to get something passed after Hilary Clinton couldn't. I do not know if my health costs will go up, but I am positive that yours won't while 42 million Americans and more will be priced out of health care and/or find their hospitals and clinics closed.
It took 150 years to defeat childhood diseases and build the public health care system, now, between private equity firms and RFK Jr. and Trump you Republicans have decided that our tax money is wasted on a health care system and would be better spent bombing fishermen in the Caribbean and sending aircraft carriers to threaten Venezuela. And some people wonder why Canadians and Western Europeans want nothing to do with us anymore. I don't. I know why. Trump and his gang of thieves, the Supreme Court, and every Republican congressperson just don't give a shit.
Past performance suggests, concerning Collins and Murkowski, that if their votes would’ve made a difference, then their votes would have been different—or they would’ve been absent, or abstained. Having a conscience is performative for those two.
God bless John McCain. His "thumbs down" saved me.
Saturday am, New York Times:
''Mr. Trump was asked by a reporter on Friday what he would say to Americans whose premiums were set to rise.
'You make it sound so bad,' the president said..."
First of all ACA is not health care or health care insurance. It's a tax crediting strategy that makes buying health care insurance from private insurance carriers affordable You spend pre tax dollars to buy health insurance and you get a tax credit., It's really no different from dozens of other tax credits you can take advantage of. Nobody is raising bloody hell about any of them
Since no one really understands how ACA plans work, and they work pretty well, why the hatred of them? One simple reason,,, somebody decided to call it "Obamacare"
What I didn’t understand about ACA insurance is that it’s not just higher monthly premiums - it’s the income limits.
At my age, if I earn enough to cover my basic bills, I lose the subsidy and my insurance jumps to about $1,000/month and I have to repay the help I got.
The result is simple: I can’t afford my bills, and trying to make more money actually makes it worse.
When the Dems held out for the subsidies and Chump cut SNAP, Tapper got on with a Dem rep and basically said, "Aren't you starving poor people with your actions? The Republicans said they'd hold a vote. Isn't your refusal just starving poor people?"
Now, he can get a Dem on and say, "Shouldn't you have held out on the CR despite the harm it was causing to poor people compared to the harm this will do to the entire country?"
Either HDHPs have drastically changed over 10 years or my employer was an idiot. I always was $$$ way ahead with the HDHP vs the LDHP. Most non-Medicare plans come with what is known as an Out-of-Pocket Maximum (OOP). This number matters more than the deductible. My strategy was to keep the fixed cost (premiums) lowest. Annual premium for L were $5,038 in 2020, for H were $703. OOP-L were $2,000, H - $3,000. They paid 80% up to the OOP for both plans, then 100%. For both plans, the deductible counted toward the OOP max. So the most I could possibly be on the hook for OOP all-in was $3,703. For H it was $7,038. Then figure the ~$1,400 tax savings and I'm down to $2,303. If you were lucky and spent zero of the $3,000 variable OOP cost because you didn't see the doc that year, then you're in the money by $697. Then you contribute to the HSA and invest for dividends, and have income. The LDLP folks got none of this gravy. I wish these reports on the horrors of HDHPs would dig down into some of this math, it's not that hard. The NPR report doesn't, it's pretty useless. We had both plan options to consider then, not sure how often that exists now.