http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/mayo-clinic-makes-medicare-medicaid-cuts
I guess Yarmuth would say medical providers like Mayo are also lying, and Physician Owned Hospitals, etc. that are being squelched out in favor of large corporate interests.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) says states couldn’t afford federal health care mandates even before “Obamacare mandated dramatic increases in Medicaid rolls — and the costs to pay for it.”
The added burden of as many as 25 million more Medicaid patients, McConnell argues, reduces quality of care.
“In my own state of Kentucky, an estimated 387,000 more people will be forced into Medicaid — at a time when the state is already struggling to provide benefits to the recipients who are currently enrolled,” McConnell said in the Republican radio address on Saturday.
“Kentucky’s governor — a Democrat — is on record saying he has no idea, no idea how Kentucky will meet its responsibilities if this law forces several hundred thousand more people into the state’s Medicaid program. The math just doesn’t add up,” McConnell said.
McConnell says the health care reform should start over with step-by-step measures.
U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky 3rd Congressional District) contends that the law guarantees affordable health care to every citizen, reins in costs, broadens consumer choice, lifts the burden from small businesses, and ultimately lowers the national debt.
“I was proud to vote for the law then, and I am even prouder now that we are seeing the results: Hundreds of thousands of Louisvillians have new access to essential care, seniors are paying far less for prescriptions, young people who couldn’t get insurance before have it now, and thousands of children are no longer being denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.”
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He graduated from Atherton High School. He then graduated from Yale University, majoring in American Studies. After working for U.S. Senator Marlow Cook from 1971 to 1975, he returned to Louisville to begin his publishing career when he founded the Louisville Today magazine (1976–1982). He later worked as a vice-president of University Relations at the University of Louisville.
Prior to his election to Congress, Yarmuth was best known for founding the weekly paper, Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO), in 1990 and for writing a progressive-oriented weekly political column that was featured on the first page of most issues. Yarmuth sold LEO in 2003 to a company owned by Times Publishing Company of Pennsylvania, owner of the Erie Times-News, though Yarmuth remained on board as a columnist and consultant until January 2006, when he declared he was running for Congress and his column was put on hold.