What's the upshot? We have to find a way to spread gains in insurance coverage realized by rich, married gay men living in liberal states to the broader 🏳️‍🌈 community. A big part of that is in expanding Medicaid, but also in addressing upstream problems like income inequality! 6/6

Finally, Medicaid expansion plays a key role here. Gains in SSC insurance status are mostly concentrated in states that have expanded Medicaid, which @samueljamesmann
@Cameron_Deal_
@GilbGonzales
Kitt Carpenter, and I have written on about elsewhere: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 5/6

In addition to accruing mostly to white SSCs and married couples (see above citations), these gains are realized mostly at the top of the income distribution, and are *much* more concentrated at the top than with DSCs (peep that IQR!). 4/6

SSCs are more likely to get their insurance through their jobs compared to DSCs than through any other provider (and at higher rates). Pre-Obergefell, this would have been through domestic partner benefits. I've written about this elsewhere: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... 3/6

Since Obergefell (really, since Windsor), SSCs have met parity (and in some years exceeded) their counterparts in health insurance coverage, but these gains (as others like Andrew Bolibol, Gilbert Gonzalez, and Lynn Blewett have found) are not equally distributed. 2/6

This is not the argument you want to make.

This is:

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The steelman here is that material conditions create pressure & contradictions; ideas emerge in response to the contradictions. These ideas form the contours of the subsequent conflicts that give rise to the next set of contradictions. Conditions are the engine while ideas are the steering wheel.

You’re welcome Kirby, you gluttonous piece of shit.

Which seems important when you’re debating a leftist, who likely is more into historical materialism.

Not to be glib, but you’re describing historical idealism.

It certainly will be. The president’s trade policy is a fool’s paradise.

Lmao painful.

Ironically back before he got fired from the Roosevelt Institute, we would get in twitter tiffs and he once reminded me that I was a PhD student at a state school and he got his from UChicago. I take a little personal pleasure that he continues to be demoted because of his personality.

As of 2024-12-01, the # of total jobs listed on JOE is down 4.9% from this point last year, down 25.1% from 2022, and down 15.7% from 2021. 2/8