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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ACA - ObamaCare

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Thanks, President Biden!
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President Biden believes every single American deserves access to quality, affordable health care. Here’s a breakdown of how the American Rescue Plan helps make that a reality:

The American Rescue Plan ensures no one will pay more than 8.5% of their income on their premium. For example, a family of four making $90,000 will see their premiums decrease by $200/ month.

The bill establishes more generous tax credits to the nearly 9 million Americans receiving financial assistance to purchase Marketplace coverage.

It provides additional Medicaid funding to states to help strengthen their home and community-based services programs, which will help older adults and people with disabilities get the care they need in their homes during this critical time.

The bill incentivizes states to expand coverage to an additional 4 million people with low incomes.

It gives states the opportunity to extend coverage for a year to low-income women who have recently given birth, as well as cover community-based crisis intervention services for people experiencing a behavioral health crisis with additional Medicaid funding.
They just announced the enrollment period is being extended another three months. And the new subsidies/benefits will be listed starting April 1.
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They've been advertising the ACA on the tubes lately. I never saw this while the repugnants were in charge.
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zekeb wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:13 pm They've been advertising the ACA on the tubes lately. I never saw this while the repugnants were in charge.
Trump deliberately pulled all the funding for advertising the ACA enrollment period.

He also killed funding for the companies that helped customers figure out which policy was best for them.
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the Missouri Lege does it again*.

The voters of this red state voted for the Medicaid expansion overwhelmingly. The trumpanzee gov and lege were not happy. So they figured out how to, once again, NOT give the people what they voted for. They refused to fund the expansion, so No Insurance For You!!!
Missouri governor scuttles Medicaid expansion after lawmakers provide no money
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 9098b.html

*Years ago voters passed an initiative to regulate puppy mills. Missouri has a deplorable history of stacking cages upon cages of female dogs living their entire lives barely able to stand up. I adopted one of these angels and her health issues were heartbreaking.

But the lege decided Missouri citizens were too stupid to understand what they were voting on so they refused to act on it. This has gotten to be a habit with them. Yet people keep voting them back into office so, in those cases, maybe they're right.
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More tyranny. :oldlady: ;)
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Breyer wrote the opinion here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/2 ... 0_6jfm.pdf
Plaintiffs did not have standing, yes?
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That's right, no standing. Another embarrassing loss for the felonious Texas AG.
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Alito wrote a 32-page dissent. Thomas wrote a 6-page concurrence. The opinion was 16 pages. I'm interested in reading Alito's dissent.

No I'm not.

Speaking of things I'm interested in not reading, Trump hasn't issued a whatever he's calling it now in five days. I wonder if we'll get some whiny bullshit regarding this opinion from him today. :faint:
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They didn't rule on the issue. They did more or less say "stop bothering us with your whiny BS."
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filly wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:20 am That's right, no standing.
The birthers' long-time nemesis.

(To this day, they are still complaining about the getting the brush off from the federal courts.)
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filly wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:20 am That's right, no standing. Another embarrassing loss for the felonious Texas AG.
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Some interesting inside-baseball speculation about the interplay between two of today's rulings:

TL;DR: The ACA case's ruling was delayed due to judicial logrolling in the same-sex adoption case.
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The same-sex adoption case has me hopping mad. Hence this vituperative tweet, for which I make no apologies:


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Catholic Church: *molests children*
Also the Catholic Church: Letting same-sex couples adopt children is against our values and bad for children.

And all nine SCOTUS justices are cool with this.
I await my scolding.
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fierceredpanda wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:53 pm The same-sex adoption case has me hopping mad. Hence this vituperative tweet, for which I make no apologies:


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Catholic Church: *molests children*
Also the Catholic Church: Letting same-sex couples adopt children is against our values and bad for children.

And all nine SCOTUS justices are cool with this.
I await my scolding.
You said "Catholic."

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Thank you to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, thank you President Biden, and thank you Congress. :lovestruck:

If you haven't checked lately, the government pumped a TON of money into the SILVER plans with the American Rescue Plan. They put most of the money in Silver plans, they are FAR better than the Gold or Platinum plans. When I talked with Ambetter, she said folks say they want "the best" so only Platinum, but they are actually far worse. You can use healthcare.gov to compare, but then you can sign up on the actual companies' site (Ambetter for me because my primary and dermatologist both take them).

Last year, I was paying $1,500 a month with a deductible, co-pays on meds, specialists, and hospitals. It was unsustainable.

Now: $0 Deductible. $1075 Max Out of Pocket Yearly. $0 for primary care doctor. $5 for specialist. All meds are totally FREE through Caremark (so it's CVS, Walgreens, and tons of others). $10 for Urgent Care. No referrals, they haven't asked for any pre-auths on procedures or meds.

And the premium (with the subsidy): $97.00 a month. Just meds are over $700 a month (generics) so this is just incredible.

Check this out!

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And those co-insurance columns are just until the $1,075 Out of Pocket Max!

It's an incredible relief. Not trying to brag at all, just illustrating that if you haven't looked lately, please please do. They have a no-excuse special enrollment period through August 15 so no waiting until the end of the year. Check which plans your important doctors take (the insurance websites seem to be out of date a lot) and have your list of meds ready, you can put them in when you start on healthcare.gov along with your doctors and then healthcare.gov will show which are included.
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The special enrollment period this year was a life saver for my Michigan sister. She had a major health crisis in January and, after spending a week in the hospital in Grand Rapids, came home with my brother and sister-in-law in southern Minnesota. She could not live on her own at that point and needed further medical tests. Because of the open enrollment, she could change her insurance coverage so that it included tests and treatment at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Thank you, President Biden! BTW, my sister is now back in Michigan and 100% better.
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God bless you and yours. Sometimes when these right wing folks talk so derisively about “Obama Care” I wonder if they realize the real lives it affects. For some it is truly life or death. Sometimes in the darkness, I fear they realize that and just don’t care. I can’t teach someone how to care about other people.
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