Darbin Wofford
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⏳ Expansions of the Affordable Care Act are set to expire—putting coverage and costs at risk for millions. 📉 Without action, families could face higher premiums or lose coverage altogether. 📚 Dive into our new series to see what’s at stake:
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They’d get rid of the tax exclusion for ESI if they could.
As debate goes on about the future of ACA premium tax credits, I wonder how many people realize that the federal government spent $384 billion last year providing a tax subsidy for employer-provided health benefits, with higher income people getting bigger subsidies.
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Why don’t you end the shutdown?
Really?! Chuck Schumer just blocked our bill to pay our troops and essential workers during the shutdown! This is wrong! If you can't bring yourself to cross party lines to ensure our troops get a paycheck, you should reconsider why you ran for Congress.
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It does.
Sen. Cassidy opens the hearing by reciting a litany of dubious talking points — especially that 340B drives up the cost of drugs and health insurance.
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MaineHealth is a non-profit charity. MaineHealth operates multiple #340B hospitals. MaineHealth pays its top executives MILLIONS of dollars per year. See MaineHealth's Form 990 tax filing. @MaineHealth
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340B fix: Define a 340B-eligible patient, guided by 5 common-sense principles: 1. Establish clear financial eligibility criteria 2. Identify 340B patients at the point of dispensing 3. Require an established, ongoing relationship between the patient and the 340B hospital 4.
patientsrising.org
Hospitals exploit the 340B Program, pocketing billions while patients struggle. Congress must add a clear 340B patient definition.
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Speaker Johnson has refused to call the House back into session, closed for business for 33 days and counting. We’ve been out so long that Spirit Halloween moved in.
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Super Bowl ads. Huge CEO salaries. First class travel. Senator @SenJonHusted points to the scandalous use of 340B funds. 340B funds need to go to communities in need - not charter jets for non-profit executives. Patients support #340B reforms.
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Today’s Senate HELP Committee hearing on the 340B program is an important opportunity to refocus the program on its core purpose: helping low-income and vulnerable patients access affordable medicines and care. As the program continues to grow, many still face rising costs and
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“Health care” is two words. Thank you for your attention to this AP style.
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The data is clear: the 340B program has ballooned in size, but patient outcomes haven’t improved accordingly. As studies reveal how profits are prioritized over patients, the Senate HELP Committee is asking the right questions. Evidence:
magnoliamarketaccess.com
This issue brief provides insights into how 340B savings are being redirected by covered entities—particularly DSH hospitals—toward financial investments instead of patient care, underscoring the...
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Patients in rural and low-income areas deserve programs that truly help them. Unfortunately, the 340B program is being exploited by some hospital systems for profit. Thanks to @HELPCmteDems and @GOPHELP for examining the issue in today's hearing.
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Spot on.
Rep. @AOC: Let me tell you why a 1 year extension is laughable. Republicans want to sign on to just one extra year of these ACA subsidies. You want to know why? Midterm elections. They want to extend these subsidies just a year extra so that people don't realize the dupe they're
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The Senate Majority Leader doesn’t understand the concept of having to earn votes. He could also end the shutdown with a simple majority if he really wanted to.
I’m not sure how much clearer I can be, but let me give it a try:  I am willing to sit down with Democrats to discuss the growing unaffordability and unsustainability of Obamacare.  It’s a system they created, but I’m happy to hear them out. Heck, I’m even willing to give them
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Uhhhhh why…..
I am returning AIPAC donations and refusing to accept any donations or support from them. The FEC filing I made yesterday reflects that we are returning donations.
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Republicans leaving town as opposed to negotiating shows how a one-year extension just means Republicans will let them expire after the midterms. Republicans can’t be trusted to negociate after passing their CR without a medium- to long-term ACA fix.
For the 10th time, Senate Dems block GOP bill to reopen government Same crossovers: Fetterman, King, Cortez Masto vote YES Paul: NO. Senate expected to leave town until Monday. Ds want talks on ACA, Rs says open govt first Shutdown to extend to week four and no end in sight
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Rather than punting and giving Republicans the oppertunity to allow the tax credits to expire after the midterms, the issue should be addressed NOW in order to end the shutdown and protect affordable health care.
NEW from @AndrewDesiderio in @PunchbowlNews AM: SHAHEEN has been discussing w colleagues holding two side-by-side votes intended to end the shutdown. The first vote would be to reopen the government, while the second would be on a one-year extension of the Obamacare enhanced
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This polls shows voters of ALL background rapidly moving to Talarico. In '24 Allred won ~90% of African American voters & ~60% white voters in the primary. Talarico has captured the attention of voters across TX without any $ on ads yet. He is in a prime position to win #txlege
Great news for James Talarico in some brand new Texas polling: -- Just four points behind Collin Allred (46-42) in the head to head primary without ever spending a dime on statewide paid media. -- Winning Latino voters -- Up 14 among young people
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It’s pretty wild that the anti-ACA crowd is sharing a graph showing their success in spiking plan premiums by: eliminating risk corridor payments (2015), stopping payment of CSRs (2017) & zeroing out the individual mandate (2019).
Obamacare started in 2014. Health insurance became more unaffordable. It got so bad, in 2021 Biden and Dems passed temporary subsidies with an expiration date of Dec 31, 2025, to hide the real cost of Obamacare insurance. Obamacare is broken and more subsidies won't fix it.
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Thanks to Republican cuts to health care, US hospitals will collectively lose $661 billion over the next decade. 🚨 This includes $125 billion in losses to rural hospitals. 🏥 Learn more ⬇️ https://t.co/KVlrb4mjz1
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If Congress allows the ACA tax credits to expire, millions of Americans could see their health insurance costs go up, even with private insurance. That’s why I am fighting to extend these credits and keep health care affordable. https://t.co/IslgY663mv
thirdway.org
Third Way is a center-left think tank that champions modern solutions to the most challenging problems in US public policy, including the economy, climate and energy, national security, social...
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