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Kentuckians hate Obamacare but love it by another name
This is the biggest fear of every Republican that should not have been if they had simply been party to the solution. Instead they lied, misinformed, and ultimately made what would be a great law, a...
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Kentucky's success makes a mockery of GOP Obamacare foes
Wednesday's Wall Street Journal provides the perfect encapsulation of the conservative crusade against the Affordable Care Act. On the opinion pages, columnist James Taranto mocked the story of new...
View ArticleEd Schultz: Washington obstruction vs Obamacare Kentucky success
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz did what all journalists should be doing: He is reporting on Obamacare comprehensively. Specifically he is putting the rollout of exchanges in the proper context. This is what they...
View ArticleA Big Week for Kentucky's Insurance Exchange
In the largely manufactured outrage over the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, even the larger media have praised Kentucky's implementation of its online exchange, Kynect.Well, this was a good week...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform at Work in Appalachia
Check out health care reform on "this side of the hill" in Breathitt County, Kentucky.Much as we Kossacks like to bang on the Washington Post, it's had the good editorial sense to run Stephanie...
View ArticleBut now everyone has Health Insurance…Right?
Today (1 Jan 2014) ACA's requirement for everyone - except a massive list of exceptions - is required to have health insurance. However I can say with 100% certainty that they don't.I work for an EMS...
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Kentucky showcases Paul Ryan's wrong-way war on poverty
That Paul Ryan's one-man crusade against poverty has gotten off to a laughably bad start should have surprised no one. After all, his various "roadmaps" and GOP budgets have called for giving massive...
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McConnell wants to diskynect 370,000 Kentuckians from their health care
Before the ink was even dry on the Affordable Care Act back in March 2010, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced his Republican Party's response. "I think the slogan will be 'repeal...
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The red state health care deficit is expanding
Back in May 2009, the Washington Post touched on the greatest irony of the health care debate just beginning to grip the nation. "The Democrats' No. 1 domestic policy initiative," Alec MacGillis...
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McConnell says new Kentucky health exchange unconnected to Obamacare
This might just be the most ridiculous thing Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said during the entire 2014 campaign:Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell says he would try to repeal the...
View ArticleACA Signups: Presenting the Great Conservative Kynect Challenge!
Cross-posted at ACA Signups Over the past 7 months, plenty of healthcare reporters, insurance executives and political pundits have started following this site and/or my Twitter feed. For the most part...
View ArticleMcConnell Smears Feces on Kynect and the ACA
McConnell continues his blatant lies campaign by smearing more feces on kynect and the ACA. According to McConnell's chief propagandist, Allison Moore:If Obamacare is repealed, Kentucky should decide...
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Popular Kentucky governor challenges McConnell's Kynect lie
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear, the popular Democrat who spearheaded Kynect, the state's Obamacare implementation, fires back at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's claim that repealing...
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Mitch McConnell's deadly lies about Obamacare
Mitch McConnell has an Obamacare problem. Make that 410,000 problems. Because that's how many of his constituents obtained health insurance through his state's very popular Kynect exchange. And as he...
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Thanks to Obamacare, Kynect cut Kentucky's uninsured rate by half
Lest there be any doubt about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to pretend that you can repeal Obamacare without repealing Kynect, the state's popular implementation of Obamacare,...
View Article"Elective abortions excluded ... "
This year, I purchased, via the Obamacare - KYNect website, private health insurance from the Kentucky Health Cooperative. I love it! - my formerly "excludeds" covered, and for less than half the cost...
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Kynect saving Kentuckians 74 percent in health insurance premiums
Mitch McConnell, like House Republicans has an Obamacare problem. He's still insisting that Obamacare has to be repealed by "pulling it out root and branch," but Kentucky's Kynect, established under...
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KY-Sen: How McConnell (R) Hides His Positions On 3 Big Issues In Reelection...
So TPM pointed out today that there are three topics Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. KY) doesn't want to talk about on the campaign trail: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...1. Ryan budget?...
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KY-Sen: PPP, McConnell (R) Has Small Lead Over Grimes (D) But Undecided...
Here is some encouraging news: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/... PPP's newest Kentucky poll finds Mitch McConnell taking a small lead, with 44% to 40% for Alison Lundergan Grimes, and 7% for...
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New Grimes ad: Fire McConnell because he missed appropriations subcommittee...
The latest ad from Kentucky Secretary of State and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes:VO: Listen to Mitch McConnell. McCONNELL: I've been on the Agriculture Committee my entire...
View Article"Just a website"
Cross-posted at ACA SignupsAn Open Letter to Mitch McConnell:McConnell says that he supports Kynect because it is just a website.... #kysen— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) October 14, 2014
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McConnell doubles down on Obamacare nonsense in Kentucky debate
In the first and likely only Kentucky Senate debate, Mitch McConnell continued to offer his nonsensical word salad when it comes to Obamacare and his state's implementation of it, Kynect. Calling...
View ArticleMcConnellCare: Take health insurance away from 520,000 and send them to the...
In a midterm campaign filled with affronts to voters and reality alike, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reached a new low in last night's Kentucky Senate debate. Declaring once again that the...
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Open thread for night owls: Mitch McConnell 'playing voters for fools'
Brian Beutler on the media's continued unwillingness to debunk Sen. Mitch McConnell's ongoing misrepresentations over Kynect and Obamacare.What’s particularly frustrating about McConnell’s...
View ArticleAlison Lundergan Grimes bests Mitch McConnell in #KYSen Debate (update 2)
Alison Lundergan Grimes, the well-respected Kentucky Secretary of State and Democratic candidate for Senator from Kentucky, performed admirably last night in the only debate Senator Mitch McConnell...
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Repeal Obamacare and 25 million people lose health insurance. Period.
From the beginning, the magnitude of Republicans' lies about Obamacare has been directly proportional to their fears it would succeed. First it was "death panels," which Politifact cited as its 2009...
View ArticlePBS Newshour gets it all wrong on Kentucky Obamacare foe
PBS Newshour on Friday ran a segment examining the impact of the Affordable Care Act in the hard-fought Kentucky race. As well they should: incumbent Republican Mitch McConnell wants to take away...
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Mitch McConnell finally confirms he wants to repeal health insurance for...
For the past several months, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has tried to have it both ways on Kynect, Kentucky's popular implementation of Obamacare that has delivered health insurance to more...
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KY-Gov: Bevin (R) Stands By County Clerk Who Refuses To Issue Marriage...
Hey everyone! Sorry I've been M.I.A. for the past few weeks. Been busy with a few things and doing some traveling. I'll be back on the road after Labor Day weekend but I figured I would at least do...
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KY-Gov: Gov. Steve Beshear (D) Slams Matt Bevin (R), Defends Decision To...
Yes! http://www.courier-journal.com/... Gov. Steve Beshear, in a statement Tuesday Morning, ripped Republican gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin for suggesting that he would save money by seeking a...
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Cartoon: Les Beastibles -- Kentucky Gubernatorial Candidate Matt Beaverin!
Les Beastiables ("Les Bez"): Beasties say the darnedest things! Today's Beastiable is the beaver version of Matt Bevin, Republican candidate for governor of Kentucky. He ignores math in order to...
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KY-Gov: Voter Turnout In Northern Kentucky Could Determine Who Wins On Tuesday
Jack Conway (D. KY) This Tuesday, voters in Kentucky will go to the polls and choose their next Governor. It's been an expensive and crazy race between Attorney General Jack Conway (D. KY) and Tea...
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Has Kentucky Governor-elect Matt Bevin over-promised on Obamacare repeal?
Extremist Republican Matt Bevin first made waves in a primary against Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell last year by running far to McConnell's right. Among his promises: Obamacare repeal. That was also...
View ArticleNo, Virginia, the Republican Party is (unfortunately) NOT in Shambles!
While this diary may be considered a “rant”--and thus not usually conveyed in a “stand-alone” format here--I think its message needs to be heard now more than ever before. I say this in light of last...
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Matt Bevin's hard choice, killing hundreds of Kentuckians or his political...
Republicans see Matt Bevins' win in Kentucky as an anti-Obamacare mandate, despite the fact that polls have shown that Kentuckians like their own version of it—Kynect—that Bevins promised to undo if...
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Matt Bevin already backing down on pledge to repeal Obamacare
Governor-elect Matt Bevin All eyes are on Matt Bevin, the tea party Republican who, of course, has made Obamacare repeal a centerpiece of his various runs for higher office. Now that he's secured...
View ArticleMSNBC Tamron Hall: softballs for DWS
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was on Tamron Hall MSNBC.Nothing but softball questions and no follow ups.Disgusting
View ArticleKentucky warily waits to see what Matt Bevin will do to 400,000 Medicaid...
Kentucky is feeling the first waves of panic now that tea party Republican Matt Bevin is about to become governor and implement his plans for undoing Kynect, the state's Obamacare program. While it's...
View ArticleHow Kentucky voted against itself when it elected Matt Bevin
This is just depressing.BOONEVILLE — The 66 percent of Owsley County that gets health coverage through Medicaid now must reconcile itself with the 70 percent that voted for Republican Governor-elect...
View ArticleKENTUCKY: Matt Bevin is an ass-half. It would take two of him to make an...
"Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces While handicapped people make handicapped faces."--Denis Leary, "Asshole"A couple of weeks ago I noted that newly inaugurated Republican Governor of Kentucky...
View ArticleKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin begins process of undoing state's remarkable...
New Republican Gov. Matt Bevin promised in his campaign to do something to roll back the remarkable success Kentucky has achieved since launching Kynect, the state's Obamacare program, and—sure enough—...
View ArticleKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin using creative math to justify dismantling effective...
Newly-elected tea party Gov. Matt Bevin ran on dismantling Kynect, Kentucky’s implementation of Obamacare. Toward the end of his campaign last year, he got squishy on the question of kicking 425,000...
View ArticleMatt Bevin proves tea party right by totally breaking Kentucky's great health...
Matt Bevin, Kentucky's tea party governor, has a lot to prove—namely the tea party principle that government doesn't work. He's doing that by overseeing an ongoing disaster of a computer system that...
View ArticleClay County KY; a window into the devastation of Trump
The irony of this election of course is that Donald Trump was actually a repudiation of the Republican party. His election however, rewarded the Republican establishment even though they lost house...
View ArticleMaybe We Need to Be Blunt About Identity Politics?
Krugman has an interesting take on populism and white voters without college degrees. He zeroed in on how public policy doesn’t really do anything to capture those voters attention. What he touched...
View ArticleAndy's rockin'; Matt's chuggin' Maalox?
By BERRY CRAIGPoor bilious Bevin. He’s been bookended by beloved Beshears.Gov. Steve, Gov. Matt's predecessor, earned a ton of kudos for creating Kynect, one of the most successful state health...
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