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(41,980 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)is quite heartening lolol and
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's as close as ordinary citizens are going to get to these rascals; might as well make 'em concentrate on their iPhones so they don't look out the windows and see the casualties of their policies.
livetohike
(22,144 posts)how badly they are being screwed. Way to go Kentucky .
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)They're philosophy is out of sight, out of mind.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)They are going to be the red state that suffers the most.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)They like the Medicaid expansion, but voted for a governor who was against it, and then voted overwhelmingly for a president who promised to repeal it. Apparently they don't mind suffering or making others suffer.
ananda
(28,860 posts)It defies logic... but that's how hate and being manipulated works.
littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
(4-8 Tactical Disposition, SunTzu)
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)It had nothing to do with Medicaid.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Surprise!
NotThisTime
(3,657 posts)they have
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)Resist Persist
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Kentucky was a model state for ACA. They will suffer if it's repealed and replaced by...well, nothing.
Unlike most southern states, Kentucky opted to both set up its own state exchange (the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, commonly known as Kynect) and to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. These efforts, ordered by Gov. Steve Beshear (D) and overseen by Governing magazines 2014 Public Official of the Year Carrie Banahan, helped get 521,000 Kentuckians insurance coverage in the first year alone. According to a Gallup poll, by the first half of 2015, Kentuckys uninsured rate had fallen from 20.4 percent in 2013 to just 9 percent, the second largest drop of any state. Governing fêted Kentucky as one of the few states that got everything right.
https://thinkprogress.org/kentucky-is-obamacares-undeniable-success-story-this-man-is-trying-to-burn-it-all-down-56c7d60933ac#.1ebrajj8u
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I forgot they're one of my faves.
Aside from the clear info, I love this quote especially:
Golly, it matters who you vote for! And the added detail about Carrie Banahan is quite refreshing. Interesting to note that research has shown, when women enter a system, they change it for the better.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Sanctimonious little prick.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)didn't want anything to do with that there OBAMAcare - but change it to Kentucare (or some sort of other B.S.) and it is suddenly something they can't do without.
coco22
(1,258 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)Pence - VP of Cheez DooDoo in chief
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)One fifth of the state had no medical coverage. Poor folks are hard-pressed to take to the streets. This just might move many more.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Response to Cattledog (Original post)
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IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)There are Democrats in Kentucky who voted for Clinton. Every red state has Democrats in it.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)Nice turnout in a red state.
Cha
(297,240 posts)nocalflea
(1,387 posts)Norbert
(6,039 posts)The dumb shit and chief can't being most of these jobs back and probably doesn't really care anyway. They voted for the orange/red menace, Putz, and McConnell. Suckers.