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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Matt Bevin, a Tea Party candidate wins governorship in Kentucky.
Now we're going to see something, the repeal of Obamacare and
500,000 people without health care..............................
back to square one.

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Originally posted by SECOND:

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Matt Bevin, a Tea Party candidate wins governorship in Kentucky.
Now we're going to see something, the repeal of Obamacare and
500,000 people without health care..............................
back to square one.

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Bevin has said he plans to shut down kynect next year, by the fall of 2016, and transfer people to the federal exchange — a process health policy experts say could be costly and disruptive to people who use it to manage their health insurance coverage.

"Kynect is working, and it's working well," said Jennifer Tolbert, director of state health reform with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington.

Decommissioning kynect could take months and cost millions of dollars — money Kentucky would have to repay the federal government, which financed the startup of the exchange, according to a presentation state officials made to a legislative committee in August.

The technology costs alone could run as high as $23 million, Haynes told the human resources budget subcommittee.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2015/11
/04/election-puts-ky-health-care-crosshairs/75150288/

Bevin has repeatedly changed his position on Medicaid. In February, Bevin asserted that he would undo Beshear's executive action. "Absolutely. No question about it. I would reverse that immediately," Bevin said. Since winning the Republican primary in May, however, Bevin has wavered. The Lexington Herald-Leader explains: "In July, Bevin said it was 'an absolute lie' that he ever said he would reverse the expansion on his first day in office." But then he appeared to change his mind again: "In an August fund raising letter, he was back to calling for complete reversal."

Bevin's most recent position: Junk the current system and replace it with an alternative that's likely to include premiums or co-pays. “I want these folks to have skin in the game,’’ Bevin said last week, echoing a popular Republican talking point. “People don’t value something they haven’t invested in.” The Republican insisted that he wouldn't take away coverage from the 400,000 enrollees. But he also said in the interview that he "will not continue" to enroll Kentuckians at 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the threshold for Obamacare's Medicaid program. (It amounts to about $16,200 for a single person.)

Bevin could make still good on his earlier promise to reverse the Medicaid expansion without providing an alternative, but that would invite a huge backlash—and come at a financial as well as political cost. Contrary to Bevin's attacks about the burden of expanding coverage on taxpayers, the state's own analysis shows that the Medicaid expansion has saved Kentucky money and will continue to do so through 2021, even after the state is required to shoulder more of the cost. (The federal government covers the state’s full expansion cost through 2016, gradually declining to 90 percent by 2020, where it remains.)
www.newrepublic.com/article/123345/kentucky-just-set-stage-next-obamac
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:

People didn't even know that Kynect coverage was coverage under the ACA (Obamacare), and were happy with their health care coverage.

The GOP have them totally brainwashed against the ACA.

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
Voting against their own interests. Stunning.

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Oh, Obama-Care ? It's collapsing under it's own failure. Despite the GOP's enthusiastic attempts to save it.


You're kidding me, right!?


SGG

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