Joe Biden is opening up a Special Enrollment Period for the ACA marketplaces. Here's a🧵on why this a BFD! 1/

2/ Trump took many steps to sabotage the ACA and its marketplaces. He severely restricted the Open Enrollment period to just 6 weeks and then cut the outreach and advertising budget by 90%. Awareness of dates, deadlines, and options is already low, so this was a big problem.
3/ Last Spring, everyone - including the insurance companies - was urging Trump to open a Special Enrollment Period because otherwise, uninsured people who simply wanted insurance in the middle of the pandemic or people who didn't have employer coverage before couldn't sign up.
4/ But Trump refused, despite reports that HHS/CMS officials favored a SEP. So if you were say a bartender and didn't have coverage through work before the pandemic and lost your job because of it, you wouldn't be able to sign up until November of 2021. https://t.co/AVPSnFBNzS
5/ Biden is now taking this important step that could get MILLIONS of people covered. Because Trump didn't do advertising or much outreach, there is $1 BILLION that is sitting unused in accounts that could be put to work in order to get people covered. https://t.co/e1ZysXWIpj
6/ Outreach and ads are really important because polling has consistently shown that uninsured people (and others) think that comprehensive ACA marketplace coverage is MUCH more expensive than it really is. Here is polling on this from @GetUSCovered. https://t.co/VDdpD5Ddf7
7/ @GetUSCovered polling from last Oct. also found that demand for coverage was very strong and, unsurprisingly, the pandemic has made consumers think having health insurance is more important than it was before the pandemic. Misperceptions about cost are the big obstacle here.
8/ In reality, 4 MILLION people qualify for zero-dollar plans. Yes, these plans have high deductibles, but these folks should also qualify for add'l ACA assistance to significantly lower copays/deductibles. Comprehensive insurance for free is certainly better than no insurance.
9/ Another 4.9 MILLION people qualify for subsidized coverage. 2 out of 3 https://t.co/4cqMfXohVf consumers can find a plan with a monthly premium of $10 or less; 3 in 4 can find one for less than $50 a month. https://t.co/piPSrDlsIl
10/ So almost 9 MILLION uninsured people can get free or subsidized coverage, but only if they know that Open Enrollment is happening, how to check out their options, and that plans are very affordable. That's why the advertising and outreach that Biden will be ramping up is key.
11/ In short, more than 60% of all uninsured people could get covered for as low as zero dollars a month. So Biden opening up a SEP and actually doing the hard work needed to educate people about their options and get them signed up could make a huge difference for millions.

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This article by Jim Spellar for @LabourList misses the point about why Labour needs to think seriously about constitutional reform - and have a programme for it ready for government.


The state of our constitution is a bit like the state of the neglected electric wiring in an old house. If you are moving into the house, sorting it out is a bit tedious. Couldn’t you spend the time and money on a new sound system?

But if you ignore the wiring, you’ll find that you can’t safely install the new sound system. And your house may well catch fire.

Any programme for social democratic government requires a state with capacity, and a state that has clear mechanisms of accountability, for all the big and all the small decisions that in takes, in which people have confidence.

That is not a description of the modern UK state.

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x