CNN’s Burnett Gets Rand Paul to Admit ‘Maybe’ Kentucky Represents an Obamacare Success Story

[TomCADem]

Talk about a conundrum. Is Rand Paul going to dismiss Kentucky's high enrollment numbers as being due to the high number of liberals in his state? Rand Paul may have Presidential aspirations, but is he ready to publicly throw his constituents under the bus?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-burnett-gets-rand-paul-to-admit-maybe-kentucky-represents-an-obamacare-success-story/

Burnett said she decided to report the “good news” on Obamacare Tuesday night “because I know that you’ve heard the bad news.” In her interview with Paul she highlighted a new report that shows 41% of Kentuckians who have signed up under the new law are under 35 years old, which is above the administration’s threshold for success of 40%. “That’s pretty impressive,” she said. “Are you going to say Kentucky is a success story for Obamacare?”

Initially, Paul rejected the suggestion, focusing instead of the people in his state who have “had their insurance canceled” under Obamacare. “The number being canceled dwarfs the number actually signing up,” he said. “So no, if that’s a success, I hesitate to see a failure.”

Burnett responded by saying that the new plans being offered to those people may very well be “better” than the ones that were canceled. “At least I have to get you on the record,” she pressed. “If young people are signing up in Kentucky, and you’re getting the math right there, that opens the door to Obamacare succeeding, right? I mean, you gotta acknowledge that.”

“Maybe,” Paul answered, going as far as he intended to go in agreeing with Burnett’s premise. He then returned to his original argument about people’s plans being canceled. When Burnett again suggested that many of those people will eventually sign up for new health care plans, Paul once again responded, “Maybe… They’re being canceled because they have something less expensive and President Obama wants them to buy one of his four plans, which are more expensive.”

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1. He looks incredibly unenthusiastic.

...and seemed to have an overwhelming tendency to repeat the phrase '40 times'.

This makes me wonder if the health insurance industry chose Kentucky as a place to peddle their worst policies, and seriously brings into question how well their senator has represented his people -allowing so many of them to be covered by health insurance that most likely didn't cover hospitalization.

I wonder if anyone pursued why so many policies were cancelled in Kentucky by Obamacare.

[CTyankee]

2. I'll bet it's because their policies were absolute CRAP.

He looked pissed as hell. Good. I'm glad he's unhappy!