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🚨 REMINDER: The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to release one or more opinions TOMORROW MORNING. This may include the fate of the Affordable Care Act. 1/
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Oral argument *seemed* to go well for the #ACA last November, and the consensus opinion is that #SCOTUS will either throw the case out or, at worst, order the mandate language stricken while leaving the rest intact...which would be mildly irritating but otherwise fine. 2/
HOWEVER, there's 4 *other* possible rulings:
1. They kick it back down to the district court again.
2. They strike down guaranteed issue & community rating only.
3. They strike down most of the law but leave oddball provisions in place.
4. They kill the entire law. 3/
1. They kick it back down to the district court again.
2. They strike down guaranteed issue & community rating only.
3. They strike down most of the law but leave oddball provisions in place.
4. They kill the entire law. 3/
THREAD: The other day @paulkrugman correctly noted that assuming the Trump/GOP lawsuit to strike down the #ACA fails, @JoeBiden's healthcare proposal (which basically amounts to #ACA2wPO) would be a Big F*cking Deal: nytimes.com/2020/10/05/opi… 1/
Krugman notes that most of the #BidenCare focus has been on the Public Option which "in the near term would be much less important than other aspects of the plan."
The "other parts" he's referring to are primarily the "ACA 2.0" parts which I've been calling for for years. 2/
The "other parts" he's referring to are primarily the "ACA 2.0" parts which I've been calling for for years. 2/
As I noted in my updated analysis of #BidenCare, while there's a LOT going on in his plan, the parts Krugman refers to include killing the subsidy cliff, beefing up the subsidies, upgrading from silver to gold & autoenrolling low-income folks: 3/
acasignups.net/20/07/23/biden…
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#DemDebate: OK, here's write-ups on all 6 candidates' healthcare plans. Remember, ALL OF THEM would vastly EXPAND coverage, REDUCE enrollee costs and PROTECT coverage of pre-existing conditions!
First up, of course, is @BernieSanders' "pure" #M4All:
acasignups.net/19/04/10/updat…
First up, of course, is @BernieSanders' "pure" #M4All:
acasignups.net/19/04/10/updat…
#DemDebate: Here's @JoeBiden's healthcare plan; basically a robust ACA upgrade with a Public Option added (#ACA2wPO):
acasignups.net/19/07/19/joe-b…
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#DemDebate: @Ewarren was "with Bernie on healthcare" for awhile and still wants his ultimate "pure" M4All in the end, but she's since decided to split it into a 2-part process: acasignups.net/19/11/19/incon…
ONCE AGAIN: @BernieSanders co-sponsored @ewarren's robust #ACA2.0 bill until less than a year ago before stripping his name off of it and crapping all over it even in the short term.
Also, @ewarren is cosponsoring a *Medicaid* buy-in bill by @brianschatz. And @KamalaHarris has cosponsored various other major healthcare expansion bills. And @JoeBiden's "#ACA2wPO" proposal is a cross between Warren's #ACA2.0 & @SenJeffMerkley/@ChrisMurphyCT's "Choose Medicare".
Point being, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH COSPONSORING MULTIPLE BILLS ON THE SAME ISSUE. Whatever the final bill ends up being, it will hopefully take the best elements of each and mush them together into something like...oh, say, @BetoORourke's #MedicareForAmerica? :)
