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I'm not familiar with Robichaux, but FWIW, David Dayen made the same point about late-night TV (and legacy TV generally).

In which I finally put an absurd WSJ graphic from 12 years ago to good use. 2026 ACA window shopping is LIVE in 5 states. Here's 4 real-world examples of how ugly it could get.

Gaba: borrowing illustrations for some real financial suffering

They're flat-out lying, yes, but she didn't answer his question, which was about OBBBA stripping eligibility from certain categories of *lawfully present* noncitizens, whom Republicans smear as "illegals."
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Two new polls confirm it: Out of the shutdown gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the enhanced ACA tax credits (updated) Via NBC News: A Washington Post poll conducted on Oct. 1, the first day of the shutdown, found that 47% of U.S. adults blame Trump and Republicans in Congress, while 30% blame Democrats and 23% said t...

📣 UPDATED: Two new polls confirm: Out of the gate, Americans STRONGLY support extending the #ACA tax credits.

🚨 Meanwhile, 58% of enrollees barely knew about the looming danger as of a week ago.

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*Way* worse than forecast: How did KFF's estimate of pending ACA premium increases rise from 75% to 114%? Ravages of time -- and ravages of Trump's CMS

Keep in mind: much of the difference between KFF's initial estimate of an average premium increase for ACA enrollees of 75% and the update to 114% is b/c Trump's CMS deliberately choose to cut subsidies even further by changing inflation calculation.

Declining American Democracy: Trump is a Symptom, Not the Cause The modern GOP is inherently authoritarian

"it’s the nature of Trump’s party, not his personal depravity, that is responsible for the decline of American democracy."
- Krugman.

OTOH they managed to get the apostrophe on a plural noun right

Bad luck. They didn't really hit him hard.

God help us

Oops, red flag was surge in auto reenrollment in FFM (hc..gov), not SBMs.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Pallone and New Jersey Colleagues Demand Investigation Into Illegal Release of Rep. Sherril's Military Records This unprecedented act is a serious violation of privacy - from putting her Social Security number on nearly. every_page to disclosing sensitive personal information about her family - and a blatant breach of clear protocols for handling sensitive documents.

Mikie Sherrill’s unredacted military records were ILLEGALLY leaked in a vile smear campaign.
This is an attack on every veteran who served with honor.
Democrats are demanding a full investigation and accountability because NO ONE is above the law. #VoteNJ

*Way* worse than forecast: How did KFF's estimate of pending ACA premium increases rise from 75% to 114%? Ravages of time -- and ravages of Trump's CMS

The updated estimate (114% avg premium increase) is based on actual 2026 conditions -- the subsidy schedule published by the IRS, and the rate requests filed by insurers.

p.s. It's now a 114% increase (on average, for 22 million subsidized enrollees)

(That year-old prior KFF estimate is going to be hard to wash out.)

Are high auto re-enrollment rates in the ACA's State-based marketplaces a problem? Take II More frequent auto re-enrollment in SBMs appears to be at least partly a result of better information and lower benchmark volatility in the SBMs than in HealthCare.gov states

That's why auto-reenrollment was historically more prevalent in SBMs and for the most part worked out okay there.
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OTOH, a surge in auto-reenrollment in the SBM in 2025 was prob something of a red flag.

Conversely, insurers some state exchanges may already (or soon) be giving out accurate information, with net-of-subsidy premiums based on the benchmark and adjusted for any income updates enrollees have provided.

In past years, Sheron Sidbury told me that Maryland does this by Oct. 1.

In hc..gov states, insurer notices at this point are notoriously inaccurate.

Or that you will be at some point within the next ten years, if the system survives. True for 50 million-plus so far.

Oh c'mon. Trump wasn't "crazy rich" until he had the chance to cash in on the presidency.

RFK's HHS has, however, moved to keep the undocumented out of Federally Qualified Health Centers, which by statute and mission are not allowed to check the immigration status of those who seek treatment.
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The psychopath who wanted to execute the innocent Central Park 5 is now running the country.
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Republican fascists are also demagoguing payment of hospitals at Medicaid rates for treating the undocumented using emergency care. These Nazis would let them die in the street post-accident or heart attack.

The lying fascists now falsely claiming Dems want to give coverage to the undocumented viciously stripped Obamacare eligibility from lawfully present immigrants subject to 5-year bar for Medicaid eligibility (~300k) AND from almost all lawfully present who aren't green card holders (1 million-plus)

That's a Kavanaugh stop

The Republican Shutdown Argument is a Giant Lie No, Democrats aren’t trying to fund health care for “illegal aliens.”

As I just happened across this in my open tabs, why not remind anyone whose eyes pass this way...

But haven't we all heard Bernardo fire back at Anita: "Puerto Rico is 'in America now!'"

What's that green mascot head Trevor Story put on post homer?

one would hope

Mulling America's self-destruction, I recalled Trump saying "I love the poorly educated."

I don't care if you have a Ph.D -- if you think Trump should lead this nation, you are poorly educated.

Confirmed.

The plans are *slightly* different because carriers make tweaks from year to year, but are virtually identical.

This is useful to be as I didn't think any of the state-based ACA exchanges had launched 2026 window shipping yet, nor did I know Georgia's 2026 rates had been finalized.