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- Sen. Mitch Mcconnell Faces Diverse Pressures On The Question Of Repealing The Federal Health-reform Law
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he still wants to get rid of Obamacare, and the Kentuckian is "under rapidly increasing pressure from conservatives to pursue an aggressive path to repealing the landmark health care law," but it won't...
- Mcconnell Runs Anti-obamacare Ad With Doctor Who Connects Pre-existing Condition With Cancellation Of Insurance
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is running his first re-election commercial focused on the federal health-reform law, featuring a Somerset physician saying ?As a doctor, I see how Obamacare hurts patients? access to care.? She says McConnell is working for...
- Beshear Cites Examples Of Health Reform's Benefits, While Mcconnell Keeps Up Criticism, At Farm Bureau's Ham Breakfast
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell squared off on health-care reform for the second straight year at the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation's annual Country Ham Breakfast at the Kentucky...
- Grimes And Mcconnell Lay Out Differences On Health Reform
By Al Cross and Megan Ingros Kentucky Health News U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell kept attacking federal health-care reform and challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes gave her strongest defense of it yet as the candidates held the closest thing to a debate Wednesday,...
- As President Hosts And Praises Beshear, Mcconnell Continues Attack On Obamacare, Says 'it's Time To Start Over'
Gov. Beshear Sen. McConnellAs President Obama prepared to have Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear as his guest at the State of the Union address, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, running for re-election, continued his attack on the health-reform...
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Beshear says Ky. is 'gold standard' for implementing Obamacare, trades shots with McConnell in Washington
"Kentucky has become the gold standard when it comes to implementing the Affordable Care Act, and I'm very proud of that," Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday morning at a press conference in Washington with Democrats in the U.S. House.
"There is a tremendous pent-up demand in Kentucky for affordable health care," Beshear said. "People are hungry for it." Citing studies that led him to expand the Medicaid program under the reform law, he said that "will generate $15 billion for Kentucky's economy and create 17,000 new jobs," Jennifer Bendery reports for The Huffington Post.
Beshear also took a shot at Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, who calls for repeal of the law: "I have a U.S. senator who keeps saying Kentuckians don't want this. Well, the facts don't prove that out." He said more than 550,000 people have visited the state's health-insurance exchange website since it launched on Oct. 1, and about 69,000 have signed up for coverage, 41 percent of them under 35.
"Asked if he thinks Obamacare will be a factor in McConnell's reelection campaign in 2014, Beshear said 'It may well be,' but perhaps not in the way McConnell hopes," Bendery reports. The governor said, "I predict it will be an issue where people start looking at the critics and say, 'What was all that yelling and screaming about? I think you must have misinformed us about the Affordable Care Act.'"
Wednesday night, McConnell called the law a "catastrophic failure" for people everywhere," Bendery notes. "This is beyond fixing. It needs to be pulled out root and branch and we need to start over," the Senate minority leader said on Fox News Channel's "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren."
"McConnell spokesman Don Stewart responded by citing an article about 280,000 Kentuckians being forced to give up their current insurance policies as a result of Obamacare requiring stricter guidelines for coverage," Bendery reports. McConnell later issued a statement saying in part, "The things my constituents now have to put up with as a result of this law are simply unacceptable." (Read more)
"There is a tremendous pent-up demand in Kentucky for affordable health care," Beshear said. "People are hungry for it." Citing studies that led him to expand the Medicaid program under the reform law, he said that "will generate $15 billion for Kentucky's economy and create 17,000 new jobs," Jennifer Bendery reports for The Huffington Post.
Beshear also took a shot at Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, who calls for repeal of the law: "I have a U.S. senator who keeps saying Kentuckians don't want this. Well, the facts don't prove that out." He said more than 550,000 people have visited the state's health-insurance exchange website since it launched on Oct. 1, and about 69,000 have signed up for coverage, 41 percent of them under 35.
Wednesday night, McConnell called the law a "catastrophic failure" for people everywhere," Bendery notes. "This is beyond fixing. It needs to be pulled out root and branch and we need to start over," the Senate minority leader said on Fox News Channel's "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren."
"McConnell spokesman Don Stewart responded by citing an article about 280,000 Kentuckians being forced to give up their current insurance policies as a result of Obamacare requiring stricter guidelines for coverage," Bendery reports. McConnell later issued a statement saying in part, "The things my constituents now have to put up with as a result of this law are simply unacceptable." (Read more)
- Sen. Mitch Mcconnell Faces Diverse Pressures On The Question Of Repealing The Federal Health-reform Law
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he still wants to get rid of Obamacare, and the Kentuckian is "under rapidly increasing pressure from conservatives to pursue an aggressive path to repealing the landmark health care law," but it won't...
- Mcconnell Runs Anti-obamacare Ad With Doctor Who Connects Pre-existing Condition With Cancellation Of Insurance
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is running his first re-election commercial focused on the federal health-reform law, featuring a Somerset physician saying ?As a doctor, I see how Obamacare hurts patients? access to care.? She says McConnell is working for...
- Beshear Cites Examples Of Health Reform's Benefits, While Mcconnell Keeps Up Criticism, At Farm Bureau's Ham Breakfast
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell squared off on health-care reform for the second straight year at the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation's annual Country Ham Breakfast at the Kentucky...
- Grimes And Mcconnell Lay Out Differences On Health Reform
By Al Cross and Megan Ingros Kentucky Health News U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell kept attacking federal health-care reform and challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes gave her strongest defense of it yet as the candidates held the closest thing to a debate Wednesday,...
- As President Hosts And Praises Beshear, Mcconnell Continues Attack On Obamacare, Says 'it's Time To Start Over'
Gov. Beshear Sen. McConnellAs President Obama prepared to have Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear as his guest at the State of the Union address, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, running for re-election, continued his attack on the health-reform...