Pretty much, also unfortunately it’s pretty popular.
Climate change just doesn’t galvanize people, so that’s going to have to be done on the down low once Dems take power. Things like the green new deal that are primarily focused on growth, but a growth that’s amenable to greening the economy seems a viable path
Large amounts of people support banning trans people from sports because of issues of fairness. I think luckily that’s as far as the support goes. Positive support for generalized support of trans people aka trans people bathroom issues, marriage licenses, etc.
Sounds like a knock against progressive DAs. I don’t know, he just glosses over the real problems have huge prison population, people staying in jail forever, etc. I get the overall idea that the victims of crime should come first. How to balance those issues though I don’t know
Is fine, as long as it has the “some people didn’t get the same opportunities so we’ll help them be on the same playing field” is in there as well.
Needs further explanation. Basically joining the TERFs, but no further explanation given.
Looking Back: The Biden Administration Has Leveraged Executive Branch Powers To Expand Coverage Access
In its first two years, the Biden administration made extensive use of its executive branch powers to expand and improve the coverage available through the Marketplace. Another top priority has been rolling back Trump-era actions limiting access to Medicaid and the Marketplace. These executive branch actions include executive orders, regulations, guidance to health plans and other regulated entities, state waiver approvals and rescissions, funding, and operational upgrades. Below, we summarize some of the most significant administrative actions to date.
Expanding Access And Affordability In The ACA Marketplaces
One of the most impactful actions the Biden administration has taken may be its significant investment in outreach and consumer enrollment assistance. Combined with more affordable Marketplace premiums, this additional support has driven Marketplace enrollment to historic heights. Additional critical administrative actions to expand Marketplace enrollment and improve access to care have included:
Fixing the “family glitch.” Beginning in 2023, family members of workers with employer-sponsored insurance will no longer be disqualified from Marketplace subsidies if they have an offer of employer-based coverage that is affordable for the worker but not affordable for the worker’s dependents. This is expected to make coverage more affordable for an estimated 1 million spouses and dependents.
Improving the consumer experience. In the past two years, the Biden administration has implemented a number of changes to reduce the paperwork and plan selection burdens for individuals applying for Marketplace coverage. These include:
Providing an extra year for subsidized Marketplace enrollees to file a tax return with the Internal Revenue Service and reconcile any advance premium tax credits, before risking the loss of subsidy.
Requiring plans on the federally run Marketplace (gov) to offer plans with standardized benefit designs so that consumers can more easily compare.
Improving coverage adequacy. Plans offered on gov must now meet new, minimum standards for enrollee access to providers. The administration has also beefed up its reviews of plans’ provider networks prior to certifying them for participation.
Supporting states’ coverage expansions. Section 1332 of the ACA allows states to waive provisions of the law to advance local health reform objectives. Biden administration rules have strengthened statutory guardrails designed to maintain people’s access to affordable, adequate coverage. The administration has also approved 1332 waiver proposals from Colorado (creating a public option plan) and Washington State (expanding coverage to undocumented immigrants).
Strengthening Medicaid, Improving Maternal Health, And Advancing Equity
The FFCRA’s continuous coverage provision has been the major driver of coverage gains associated with Medicaid. However, the Biden administration has sought to advance coverage, access, and health equity goals through section 1115 waiver policy and regulatory activity.
An early priority for the Biden administration was the rescission of approved section 1115 demonstrations that allowed states to condition Medicaid eligibility on work requirements. Such waivers had been approved in 13 states by the Trump administration; in the first few months after taking office, the Biden administration rescinded them all—although a recent court order reinstated Georgia’s approval.
Additionally, the White House released a major new maternal health blueprint in June 2022, and has encouraged states to take up the new 12-months postpartum coverage option. States have been rapidly adopting the new option, with 34 states and the District of Columbia moving forward as of this writing.
More recently, the administration had advanced its coverage and health equity goals by approving section 1115 waivers such as Oregon’s Health Plan, which breaks new ground by offering continuous eligibility for children 0–6 years old and two years of continuous eligibility for everyone else.
Fair enough. Biden actually did some good things. I had totally forgotten that had happened which doesn’t say good things for the general electorate knowing any of that happened.
Not enough lolz for Yggy’s list. You don’t win these people back by giving into their demands. You win these people back by meeting them where they are: with conspiracy theories in online media. Hear me out: InfoWars, but with lefties, and instead of the Jews being the villains, it’s billionaires. Inflation? Ain’t nothin but greedy billionaires jacking up prices and hiding who’s to blame. Trans women in sports? Plainly a distraction that you, oh enlightened online person, can see through.
I guess we can go back to 2004 and re-run the Air America experiment. Randi Rhodes would probably be pretty happy with that. But I hope that doesn’t mean we have to sit through Million Dollar Baby again.
Think we have a chicken/egg problem similar to that posed by Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: people aren’t voting for Dems if they don’t do anything tangible, but also Dems can’t pass transformative legislation without people voting for a substantial, Manchin/Sinema-free majority.
Obviously not directly relevant to winning national elections but that list is tailored towards addressing the large slippage among the working class in NYC and other deep blue areas. Indirectly relevant to national politics because they are an avatar of the ideas that Ds can’t govern, especially without Rs checking them.
I actually blame this on Biden, he didn’t promote the things he did. If Trump has any skill, it’s as a self-promoter. He never missed an opportunity to talk about the things he did even when he hadn’t done it. He made sure his signature was on those checks. He puts his name on everything. That’s basically one thing the Dems are going to have to do. Just be shameless in talking about the things they have done for people.
I think it’s the exact opposite of this and will continue to voice this opinion even though few people apparently agree with me.
The reason there’s no Joe Rogan of the left is that everyone on the left recoils at the idea of inviting people from all over the political spectrum, getting high, and chatting with them for a couple of hours.
The best political discussion of this election cycle happened not on UP, or SPE, or NMNM. It was sadly, back on 2p2.
To succeed in politics you need to sell a vision and win over hearts and minds. None of this is currently happening.
To the post this was responding to - how about trying to talk to her like a normal person and explain why you think she’s wrong. In a non-smug non-condescending way. Ok so she read some bullshit on the internet and believed it, what happened to being the side with compassion and empathy. Or idk the other option is we can keep slowly eliminating people one by one the same way we’ve been splitting up our forums.
Catching up on the last few posts - Air America but with Bill Simmons, Derek Thompson, and Destiny instead of Rachel Maddow and Al Franken is an ok start.
I wonder if 10-20 years of mashing the rage button vs the billionaire class would work. The Republicans have been doing this since 2008. Remember the Tea Party and how they were “FeD uP!”?
The problem is the forums, says the dude who broke his tongue apologizing for the people who fucked the 2020 primary
To be clear a way bigger problem than the “forums” is that Elizabeth Warren took a giant dark money donation from Karla Jurvetson and then abandoned her progressive ideals. This poster doesn’t think that is any sort of big deal. What is a big deal is the FORUMS
At this point, it might be the only thing that can. As much as Trump’s supporters consider themselves Christian, the teachings of Christ clearly do not resonate at all. Love your neighbor? Nah. People want someone to hate much more than they want to listen to the teachings of their religion or even their own financial wellbeing. Billionaires are a perfect villain because they are the real villains.
