At around 9am, Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn asked the following:
Steve Marmel sent out the Bat Signal:
I decided to oblige:
As you can see above, the thread seems to have caught some attention, having been retweeted by folks like Soledad O’Brien...
...and Rob Delaney, who I actually don’t know a thing about but who put kind of an odd spin on it…
None of this is to say that the ACA doesn’t have serious, legitimate problems which need to be addressed, including:
- beefing up the subsidies and raising the eligibility threshold (which Hillary was hoping to get through)
- increasing the mandate penalty (this one would be nearly impossible to get through Congress even with full Democratic control)
- fixing the “offered ESI” issue (noted in the thread)
- fixing the “family glitch”
...and so forth. But to try and blame the remaining uninsured on the ACA is vomit-inducingly disingenuous.
It takes an awful lot of time and effort to maintain the ACA Signups website. Ironically, with the ACA potentially having the plug pulled in the near future, I’ve been busier than ever attempting to document not only the progress of the ongoing Open Enrollment Period but also trying to keep up with the frenzy over what in God’s name Trump and the GOP have in mind for the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid next year. I don’t know what the future will hold, but I’m going to try and keep the site going at least through the end of 2017.
With that in mind, if anyone’s in a position to help support the ACA Signups project, it would be tremendously appreciated.