Were they told that those age-based subsidies would make older recipients worse off than today?
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Lower-income old recipients, yes. But higher-income recipients would get more. We made this clear.
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Fair enough. It wasn't clear in the story!
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No problem!
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The article says Trump-voting ACA enrollees liked age-based subsidies. What about the rest?
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We’re doing more focus groups with non-Trump voters. Stay tuned!
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Also did you get the impression they'd done the math? That they realized lower income folks would lose?
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We tried to be as clear as we could that those with lower-incomes would lose money. Appeal of universal tax credits stuck.
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- Yes. And one person justified it by speculating that Bill Gates might get a rare disease & go broke.
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Bill Gates needs insurance subsidies because he might go broke if he didn't get them.
#headthroughdesk
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As an ACA supporter, I'm actually not opposed to a nominal premium for Medicaid ($5/mo?) if it helps with the stigma thing...
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...however, it seems to me that would complicate administration tremendously, driving up management costs.
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The current system is "unfixable" because it contains a fatal flaw: health insurance.
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Super discouraged by this. Feeling like we (Americans) get what we deserve sometimes. OTOH...
@sarahkliff is a genius reporter. GeniusThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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of course they are opposed! They can sign up AFTER they get sick currently....
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