Crowds greet Pence as he arrived in KY yesterday.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Good on you, Kentucky

Kentucky was a model state for ACA. They will suffer if it's repealed and replaced by...well, nothing.

From the earliest days, Kentucky’s efforts to implement Obamacare have earned national acclaim. As the troubled roll out of the national health care exchange website was ruthlessly mocked by late night television, Fortune praised “one health exchange success story”: Kentucky’s new state-level marketplace.

Unlike most southern states, Kentucky opted to both set up its own state exchange (the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, commonly known as “Kynect”) and to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. These efforts, ordered by Gov. Steve Beshear (D) and overseen by Governing magazine’s 2014 Public Official of the Year Carrie Banahan, helped get 521,000 Kentuckians insurance coverage in the first year alone. According to a Gallup poll, by the first half of 2015, Kentucky’s uninsured rate had fallen from 20.4 percent in 2013 to just 9 percent, the second largest drop of any state. Governing fêted Kentucky as “one of the few states that got everything right.”
https://thinkprogress.org/kentucky-is-obamacares-undeniable-success-story-this-man-is-trying-to-burn-it-all-down-56c7d60933ac#.1ebrajj8u