Pence says Obamacare failed Kentucky, where 500,000 gained insurance through thelaw

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Speaking in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence called Obamacare a “nightmare,” and said that Kentucky was a “textbook case of Obamacare’s failures.”

There’s only one problem with those statements — Obamacare provided insurance to 20 million Americans, and Kentucky has actually been one of Obamacare’s biggest success stories.

In 2013, 20.4 percent of Kentucky residents were uninsured. In 2016, that number had fallen to 7.8 percent. Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, who actually campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare, found once he entered office that because the health care plan was helping so many people, he couldn’t kill it easily. Instead, he merely rebranded the law to make it more friendly to conservatives.

Many people in Kentucky now have insurance through the expansion of Medicaid, which was a central part of Obamacare, or Kynect, which is Kentucky’s name for its Obamacare exchange.

https://thinkprogress.org/pence-obamacare-failed-kentucky-where-500-000-gained-insurance-1f06df8ec2d4#.xe6r4vlzw

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The truth means absolutely nothing to these fucking fascists.

I wish someone was as mad as me but able to do something.

I am losing it.

[dawg]

13. Yeah, I can't do anything either.

Not much, anyway.

But surely there are people like us who are more powerful.

I *might* be able to use demonic powers to turn all their cokes into pepsi, but that's about it.

[Initech]

2. 2,500,000 could gain insurance and they'd still call it a failure.

Fucking psychopaths!

[subterranean]

17. 20 million losing insurance would be a success in their eyes.

I really don't understand how the Republican mind functions.

[Initech]

18. Easy - up is down, black is white, good is bad, and so on.

[spanone]

3. pence is a stranger to truth

[GP6971]

4. It's obvious that they

put their foot in their mouth without even thinking about what they're saying.

He's such putz.

[still_one]

5. lots of luck Kentucky, you voted for trump

[Jim Beard]

6. Why don't the Democrats remind everyone of how the republicans locked arms and denied

the the Democrats a chance to fine tune the plan.

[exboyfil]

10. I was thinking the Democrats could do something

like that in context with a large defense program that went off the rails. Contractors get to overbill and get course corrections, but not people whose lives are impacted - in some cases to the point of death.

[Jim Beard]

11. I see what you are saying. Instead of a sunset provision....

make it mandatory to give passed laws consideration for improvement in so many years but not repeal.

[milestogo]

7. In his mind, people getting health insurance is failure.

Republicans pervert everything.

[subterranean]

15. My thoughts exactly.

To Pence and other Republicans, Obamacare was a disaster in Kentucky precisely because so many poor people got covered, especially through the Medicaid expansion. The Republicans want to fix that and restore their freedom to do without health care.

[milestogo]

16. Freedom to die unnecessarily...

What better way to get rid of the poor?

[democratisphere]

8. Pence is a smarmy piece of garbage and like most republiCONs doesn't care

about their constituents.

[Freethinker65]

9. Kentucky, where they hate "Obama"care but like Kynect

Insane

[Zorro]

12. Guess all that "Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness..." stuff doesn't apply to Pence in this case

Just how many commandments are Republican approved?

[bdamomma]

14. Kentucky Huh???

Mitch McConnell's Kentucky right? need I say any more?