@LauraLynn1960 @InezFeltscher Something like 20% of young people couldn't get coverage. More could only get care with riders that would make the care worthless.
What is the alternative that has been proposed since Obamacare passed?
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KavisTheImpaler
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@KavisThe
not related to Vlad. not here for you.
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@KavisThe @InezFeltscher Then it should have been insanely unaffordable for a few rather than insanely unaffordable for everyone.
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For the kids who are too young to remember, you used to be able to get basically full, complete coverage above a max of $5,000 (aka “catastrophic coverage”) for 90 bucks a month before Obama made it “affordable.”
Chris Pappas@ChrisPappasNH
The ACA was signed into law 16 years ago today, bringing health care coverage to millions of Americans. But now, 22 million Americans are struggling to afford health insurance because Donald Trump and Senate Republicans refused to extend the ACA tax credits, which could drive families into crippling debt. I won’t stand for these attacks because every American deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care.
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@ThePurpIeKnight @InezFeltscher It was broken for the 20 year old with childhood asthma they grew out of but was still considered a pre-existing condition. They could get affordable coverage or be on their parents plan.
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@KavisThe @InezFeltscher dunno, but i don't really need an alternative to say that we shouldn't have broken what we had before for an easily predicted net negative result
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@ThePurpIeKnight @InezFeltscher Ok, what is the alternative to Obamacare that has been proposed in the decade plus since it was passed?
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@KavisThe @InezFeltscher yes, that is how insurance is supposed to work. a different solution than insurance needs to be found for cases where insurance literally doesn't make sense
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@constans Also important to note that the "no filter" of the blue collar guys is fake too.
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There is a valuable lesson to be learned here— people with very little impulse control end up limited to a certain subset of jobs while people who can learn to understand social norms of their environment & have self control can advance further. Children see this as “being fake”
Real Post Folder@RealPostFolder
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@lymanstoneky I have three kids and one of the craziest parts of having a kid is how much work breast feeding is. I watched my wife struggle, it is very hard work! People think because it's natural it's easy and it is brutal to women who can't make it work but try and try.
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I think it’s worth realizing that over 80% of babies are breastfed before leaving the hospital and over 95% of mothers will at least attempt to breastfeed.
The idea there’s a big anti breastfeeding contingent is false.
rachael 💫@witty_genstein
there are many reasons a woman might not be able to breastfeed (eg mastectomy) and this is obviously not child abuse. not feeding a baby an alternative when the mother has low supply is *actually* child abuse. that said, the heath benefits of breastfeeding are uncontroversial and imo formula should not be treated as plan A, assuming it is physically possible for mom to breastfeed. There is a certain type of women I have encountered who plan to use formula solely so their husbands can participate in night feeds. These women are obsessed with “fairness” in marriage and unwilling to confront that the fiction of a perfect 50/50 split breaks down when one parent has the parts to provide live sustaining nourishment to the child and the other does not. I would find it a bit despicable that they are willing to sacrifice their child’s health in service of maintaining feminist optics, except that usually they are unaware of the health costs bc the idea that formula is just as good has been widely propagated
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@emnode @AlecStapp @razibkhan Mississippi and Louisiana are leaving more kids behind. They are keeping them back in 3rd grade.
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@AlecStapp @razibkhan What are they doing differently? If it's pedagogical then that isn't the teachers' union standing in the way. That's a choice made by the "educational administrative deep state." If it's about more seat-hours, that can be had by paying for it
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This is a really astonishing claim:
Students in Mississippi & Louisiana score higher on reading tests than students in California & New York despite spending way less money per pupil and having higher child poverty rates.
Decided to double check the data because, if true, this should be alarming for blue state leaders.
And yup, it checks out.
Reading performance (NAEP 2024, Grade 4 reading, average scale score):
Mississippi: 219
Louisiana: 216
New York: 215
California: 212
Child poverty (SAIPE; “estimated percent of people age 0–17 in poverty,” 2023):
Louisiana: 25.2%
Mississippi: 24.3%
New York: 18.6%
California: 15.0%
Per-pupil spending (public K–12 “current expenditures per pupil,” FY2023, inflation-adjusted to FY2023 dollars)
New York: $29,588
California: $18,568
Louisiana: $14,822
Mississippi: $12,238
It should be unacceptable to spend that much more taxpayer money while delivering worse results for students.
Nicholas Bagley@nicholas_bagley
@ProfSchleich @dbroockman @j_kalla If Democrats want to stay relevant, and to deliver for the public, they cannot wait for unions to change. They need to break more often with their friends. nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opi…
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@TPCarney That's fine but he is right. One party has been for ending partisan gerrymandering and tried to do so and it isn't the guys you support.
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Again, every single Dem enthusiast for gerrymandering behaves like a child.
Gerald M LeRoy 🌧️☘️🌱🌷@GeraldLeroy6
They did start it, you whiny child. And they could finish it. But every time Ds have brought up banning gerrymandering, Rs in Congress vote No. Talk to them.
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@canna_corn @TPCarney Democrats attempted to ban partisan gerrymandering in 2018 and it was stopped by the supreme court. Guess which justices voted for it and against it.
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Virginia Democrats applaud themselves for this map, saying it saves democracy and provides fair representation.
Outside Democrats sooth their consciences with the claim that Republicans "started" the whole gerrymandering thing.
Dave Wasserman@Redistrict
NEW: Virginia Dems’ proposed congressional map would almost surely torpedo four GOP seats, converting delegation from 6D-5R to 10D-1R this fall. Still faces several hurdles to passage.
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@TPCarney Why doesn't the house put a ban on partisan gerrymandering on the floor and force democrats to vote against it?
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@janecoaston @LizWolfeReason Considering we know the human brain is fully formed at 25 it is exceedingly more reasonable to say babies at 25 biologically than at 16.
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Unfortunately Palmer is just totally correct, I was pregnant w my first at 25 and that's SO much easier than my second now at 29, i feel like a dying whale every day. Going to keep testing this throughout my thirties but it's just obvious and nobody wants to say it but i will!
TBPN@tbpn
"Let's not be politically correct. Let's just admit you're supposed to be having kids when you're 16, 17, 18. And be done by the time you're in your 20s." @PalmerLuckey says we should be having kids in our teens 👇
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@carney The vice president, president, and other are lying saying most political violence is coming from the left. Is truth not important from our leaders?
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@wanyeburkett Tons of kid birthday parties are at places like indoor playgrounds, inflatable places, trampoline parks, and ninja gyms. Kids are used to wearing socks, it is fine.
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Maybe the shoes-off thing is why kids aren’t socializing anymore. I wouldn’t go to a party, either, if I had to stand around and talk to everybody in my socks.
Loquitur Ponte Sublicio@loquitur_ponte
You just cant be too intense about this because of the aesthetics and at that point you just kind of have to shrug it off and treat your normal as an unimportant preference. I mean you're not having people in suits and socks or barefoot here so if you ever dress up there's just a consistency veto right there
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@micsolana It's part of a research project looking at the health impacts of heat to older people and if AC can improve health outcomes and cut healthcare costs.
It seems like a perfectly reasonable research project.
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why was I paying harvard to distribute air conditioners to 100 random boston residents
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman
100 air conditions would cost 0.00000038% of Harvard's net worth
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@DouthatNYT This is a fascinating conversation because on any possibly bad thing Trump or Republicans can do she retreats to saying that since Progressives are liars/bad I can't trust anything. Any cruelty, any policy, she doesn't actually have any morals, just excuses for what she wants.
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This week's episode of Interesting Times is a conversation with Allie Beth Stuckey:
youtube.com/watch?v=wfhAtL…
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@dieworkwear Hey this is completely off topic but have you written about beach towels (materials, brands, etc.) or do you have thoughts on them?
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btw, i asked for the list of 100 books, but they are working on it, so please don't flood their email address with requests. however, they seem to be happy to recommend books if you give them a topic. their site is full of cool stuff, including signed copies by joan didion.
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@AGHamilton29 He is making the same kind of mistake Biden made with Palestine. His voters are latching on to a specific failure and ignoring his victories.
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You almost have to feel bad for Trump. He just had the objectively best month of his presidency.
He took out Tehran’s nuclear threat w/ minimal blowback, ended the border crisis, is actively deporting people in large numbers, passed a lot of his legislative priorities via a budget bill, has moved on 80-20 issues like trans participation in women’s sports, ended a conflict in Africa, pushing towards normalization with Syria, economy is mostly withstanding a lot of the tariff stuff for now etc etc
And here you have many of the key MAGA influencers giving TPUSA speeches completely dismissive of all of that as meaningless and focused exclusively on an online conspiracy centered on a dead guy where few actually care about the truth.
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@garrytan It is morally repugnant that humans on planet earth go hungry and billionaires exist. It's more money than you can spend in a lifetime and letting other humans suffer when you can trivially help them with zero impact to your life and actively choosing not to is gross.
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@hubermanlab Has there ever been a rich person who said "money can't buy happiness" and then chosen to give up their money? It clearly does something or we would see people get rid of it!
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Money may not buy happiness but it can definitely buffer (many forms of) stress.
It’s wild that the same folks who tout the “past 70-100K annual we observe no increase in happiness” data are the same to say “if stress is detrimental depends on resources to combat stressors…”
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