Brian4Liberty
05-30-2014, 01:45 PM
Must be time for the General Election...
Since winning his primary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — the man who has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act “root and branch” — is embracing key tenets of reform, which has provided health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians.
Speaking to reporters last week, McConnell reiterated his support for repealing the ACA, but suggested that the state’s health exchange, established with $252 million in federal grants, should not be dismantled. Campaign manager Jesse Benton and other campaign advisers later doubled down on the claim and went even further, arguing that Kentucky should also maintain the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid.
The state has been a model for effective Affordable Care Act implementation, enrolling over 400,000 people in health insurance coverage since October.
“Obamacare loosened eligibility requirements for Medicaid recipients, and in the process, helped find many who were already eligible but no enrolled,” Benton told the Washington Post. “These people would remain eligible even after a repeal. The federal government does allow states flexibility in setting requirements and Kentucky could be able to keep many of the newly enrolled in the program if we decided to.”
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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/05/29/3442576/republicans-obamacare-mcconnell/
Since winning his primary, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — the man who has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act “root and branch” — is embracing key tenets of reform, which has provided health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians.
Speaking to reporters last week, McConnell reiterated his support for repealing the ACA, but suggested that the state’s health exchange, established with $252 million in federal grants, should not be dismantled. Campaign manager Jesse Benton and other campaign advisers later doubled down on the claim and went even further, arguing that Kentucky should also maintain the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid.
The state has been a model for effective Affordable Care Act implementation, enrolling over 400,000 people in health insurance coverage since October.
“Obamacare loosened eligibility requirements for Medicaid recipients, and in the process, helped find many who were already eligible but no enrolled,” Benton told the Washington Post. “These people would remain eligible even after a repeal. The federal government does allow states flexibility in setting requirements and Kentucky could be able to keep many of the newly enrolled in the program if we decided to.”
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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/05/29/3442576/republicans-obamacare-mcconnell/