WTF Kentucky?
I think we nation are suffering from some sort of mass psychosis, like this clown in the article who voted for Bevin but needs Obamacare and now he's afraid that he'll dismantle it. What the fuckity fuck fuck fuck? THAT'S WHAT THE ASSHOLE RAN ON!!!!!!!!
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Kentucky confronts the consequences of its decision
Arguably more than any other state, Kentucky has created an amazing health network. Under Gov. Steve Beshear’s (D) leadership, the state’s success story has served as a national model for overhauling an ineffective system, replacing it with an effective system that costs less and covers more.
And now it’s likely to be torn down on purpose. Gov.-elect Matt Bevin (R) ran on a platform of dismantling Kynect and scrapping Medicaid expansion on the state, despite the fact that it’s been a literal life-saver for many families in his adopted home state. Last week, the Republican won his race easily, offering him the opportunity to do exactly what he promised to do: gutting health security for much of Kentucky.
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But the Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein reported this week from Pike County, Kentucky, where many in the community have come to rely on the state’s health network, but where many nevertheless voted for the far-right candidate who’s voted to destroy that network.
Dennis Blackburn has this splintered self-interest. The 56-year-old mechanic hasn’t worked in 18 months, since he lost his job at a tire company that supplies a diminishing number of local coal mines…. He has a hereditary liver disorder, numbness in his hands and legs, back pain from folding his 6-foot-1-inch frame into 29-inch mine shafts as a young man, plus an abnormal heart rhythm – the likely vestige of having been struck by lightning 15 years ago in his tin-roofed farmhouse.
Blackburn was making small payments on an MRI he’d gotten at Pikeville Medical Center, the only hospital in a 150-mile radius, when he heard about Big Sandy’s Shelby Valley Clinic. There he met [Mindy] Fleming, who helped him sign up for one of the managed-care Medicaid plans available in Kentucky.
It would appear Blackburn is exactly the kind of Kentuckian who would go out of his way to protect the health benefits he needs – and yet, Blackburn voted for Bevin last week because the far-right candidate isn’t a “career politician.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/kentucky-confronts-the-consequences-its-decision?cid=sm_fb_maddow
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Especially racist stupid and jebus stupid.
And Teh Stoopid is very carefully and assiduously cultivated in this country.
