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All hail the time of the bunny!

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The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Books are my comfort food!

We will not go back.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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39 Hours to the end of Open Enrollment

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For everyone who is buying their health insurance on Healthcare.gov, you have thirty nine to forty three hours to make your selection. Open Enrollment Period (OEP) ends at midnight between December 15 and 16th local time.

Healthcare.gov sometimes gives a short extension and a “waiting in line” opportunity for people who had opened up new accounts but had not completed a choice. Do not count on these extensions.

Go make a reasonable choice. Accept that you are unlikely to make a perfect choice but that you can make a good enough choice.

If you need help, ask away in comments.

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  2. 2.

    Cornelius

    I have a question! Our family income is above CHIPS eligibility in Georgia, yet the system deferred my 16 year old son’s marketplace eligibility while the state of Georgia conducts some kind of ‘review’ to determine his eligibility for CHIPS. This did not happen last year. I was thinking to call healthcare.gov to try to expedite getting him onto our marketplace plan if it’s possible at all, though I’m not optimistic about that. I am concerned he will have a coverage gap while we wait for Georgia to inevitably deny CHIPS. Is there anything we can do to get him on our BCBS plan before the 1st? Thanks!

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    different-church-lady

    Accept that you are unlikely to make a perfect choice but that you can make a good enough choice the insurance industry has deliberately made it impossible to make a good choice, so just make the best choice you can.

  7. 7.

    David Anderson

    UI is counted as part of your ACA subsidy relevant income.  If someone thinks that they will have UI for next year, include that estimated income in your estimated guess of what you’ll make next year for subsidy calculations.

     

    As soon as that changes, go back into Healthcare.gov or your state based marketplace to update the income calculation.

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    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    What happens if your address of record changes in mid-year? Asking because I’ve got a situation: I may be an expat, but I’ve been maintaining Stateside health insurance through my family’s address in New York. I’m losing that this year because they’re also becoming expats. I have a health condition that, lacking insurance, will lead me down the bankruptcy-or-death route if it becomes acute. And if that condition becomes an uninsurable pre-existing condition because of a break in the continuity of my medical coverage…

    …I might be in trouble.

  16. 16.

    Chris T.

    I’m no longer in California (having moved north for retirement purposes and because the state kept catching fire) but am still on the CoveredCA mailing list, and they’ve just extended their enrollment period another week or two.  We (spouse and I) are in the WA health plan system now instead, and have not seen anything from them, but we’re already registered for 2021.

  18. 18.

    StringOnAStick

    We both retired and will have less than 35k income next year so we applied for an ACA plan and are happy with first being able to get one and for the help we got from a navigator.  Medicare age is 2 more years for us.

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    ProfDamatu

    I could have sworn that when I initially logged on to the Marketplace, I only comparison shopped. When I came back a week later, I found that my choice had been registered. Which was fine, as it was for the plan I would have chosen (amazingly, my carrier is actually offering this year’s plan again next year; first time that’s happened in four years).

    I’ve already received next year’s insurance card, but I suppose I’ll make one more call tomorrow to make sure they’ve got all the info and are going to properly continue billing. Not that I don’t trust them, but, well…if you could pick customers to shed “accidentally on purpose,” I’d probably be one of them.

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