"McConnell reiterated his support for repealing the Affordable Care Act at a press conference in Louisville, Kentucky, ...."
Did you read the "whole article" or just the headline?
Originally Posted by LexusLover
Nice spin job LL. Try reading more than paragraph #2. Do you know what Kynect is? It means the state of Kentucky is running their own website instead of Healthcare.Gov. All of the rules of the ACA apply. If you are a family of 4 and make > $24,000 and < $94,000 you will get a subsidy to help pay for your premium.
If you are a family of 4 and make < $24,000 you qualify for the Kentucky expanded state Medicaid.
IF you support KYNECT you support Obamacare. McConnell is just playing with words in paragraph #2.
Back to the drawing board LL.
In a stunning reversal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested on Friday that he would not support repealing Kynect, Kentucky’s state-run health care exchange. The marketplace has been a model for effective Affordable Care Act implementation,
enrolling over 400,000 people in health insurance coverage since October.
McConnell reiterated his support for repealing the Affordable Care Act at a press conference in Louisville, Kentucky, but would not say if Kentuckians enrolled in coverage should lose insurance. Responding to questions from WHAS reporter Joe Arnold about whether the state’s exchange should be dismantled,
McConnell said, “I think that’s unconnected to my comments about the overall question here.”
The answer is in stark contrast to McConnell’s past pledges to repeal the law “root and branch” and claims that reform is “not fixable.” Still, this isn’t the first time McConnell or his allies have sought to soften the senator’s stance on the Affordable Care Act. In February, ads released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on McConnell’s behalf portrayed the Senate Minority Leader as “leading the fight to fix this Obamacare mess”
without mentioning the words “replace” or “repeal.” Since the end of the first open enrollment period, a growing number of Republican candidates have
avoided discussing outright repeal or
answering questions about their states’ Medicaid expansion proposals.