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Danny Mintz
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Safety-net policy, New Orleans stuff, etc.

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These are real people facing real consequences if Congress doesn’t act to extend the enhancements ASAP. M.M., an IT consultant, would be forced to cut back on groceries and medications like insulin to treat their diabetes. (3/4)
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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REMINDER: Mike Johnson's district has ~40,000 #ACA market enrollees.

A single parent earning $40K/yr could see their net premiums more than TRIPLE.

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Louisiana: Breakout of impact on net ACA benchmark Silver plan premiums if enhanced tax credits expire
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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What is the SNAP poison pill? Weaponizing an obscure administrative metric: error rates.
Errors are inevitable because Congress designed a policy that’s impossible to administer perfectly. Nevertheless, states will now pay between 5-15% of their SNAP budget if their error rates go above 6%.
How does this work? Each state draws a random sample of its SNAP beneficiaries, and then reevaluates their eligibility documentation. The federal government then reviews 50% of those cases. In part, the error rate captures how frequently, based on these reevaluations, states had made erroneous SNAP payments—too much or too little, including payments to people who didn’t qualify for benefits. Importantly, the error rate also captures procedural errors—meaning it includes cases where the benefit was, in fact, correct, but where other mistakes were present, such as a missing signature or form. Starting in 2022, cases where beneficiaries were in fact deemed still eligible or were paid the correct benefit, were nonetheless deemed an ‘error’ if any of the paperwork was incomplete or included mistakes. Even if the state gets the outcome right, it can still be penalized for imperfect processes.
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM