Posted on 02/28/2016 6:54:40 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
FRANKFORT – Kynect, the portal to Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, was described as too expensive and not sustainable by Kentucky Medicaid Commissioner Stephen Miller and Vicki Yates Brown Glisson, Secretary, Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Glisson told members of the House Budget Subcommittee on Human Resources on Tuesday that since the federal money used to support Kynect is beginning to go away, it is fast becoming cost prohibitive to keep what she calls “the website, or portal” intact.
“The day of reckoning has come, and we’re going to have to pay the bills,” Glisson said.
Glisson told legislators that Kynect has cost $330 million to-date.
Gov. Matt Bevin says that he will follow through with a campaign promise to shutdown kynect and switch Kentuckians to the federal exchange for the Fall 2016 enrollment period, saying that no one will lose health coverage.
Kentucky Medicaid Commissioner Stephen Miller told members of the committee that approximately 1.3 million Kentuckians, or roughly 30 percent of the population, including 400,000 children, are currently enrolled in Medicaid services, with approximately 90 percent of those in Managed Care.
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Rep. Donna Mayfield, R-Winchester, sided with cabinet officials, saying that a move to the federal exchange will save a good amount of money that could be used for programs to support Kentucky’s most vulnerable citizens.
“Is this not a tremendous savings that would be yielded that we could turn around and spend on the most vulnerable and as far as any other issues as well that we’re concerned with?” Mayfield asked.
“Absolutely, not the least of which is to try to begin to tackle the huge deficit which we have in Medicaid,” Glisson answered. “Try to make that program sustainable.”
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What an amazing joke.
Oh they’ll have “coverage” all right. They just won’t have access.
Someone must be making a ton of money. Multiply that times 50 (50 states).
And it begins............
Breshear is responsible for this fiasco. And Bevin will get crucified for being a gown up and dealing with it.
Kynect was illegal from the get go. Not that law means anything to a Democrat.
gown = grown
Am I reading that correctly - $250 per person simply for the internet portal?
Not for any medical care/insurance actually delivered to customers?
Amazing!
Working perfectly.
Hey, wouldn't it be great if the next administration prosecuted the architects, starting with that punkass Gruber?
If I'm not mistaken, Oregon's website cost over $300 million...and never signed up a single person.
too late for prosecution - should be something and a short drop
They will just get funded with more fake printed money. Life will go on and our country will swirl down the hole for a bit longer.
Duh!
Why don’t da gubmint just print some mo-money to pay my medical bills?
What a boondoggle!
Kentucky Medicaid Commissioner Stephen Miller told members of the committee that approximately 1.3 million Kentuckians, or roughly 30 percent of the population, including 400,000 children, are currently enrolled in Medicaid services
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That is an astounding figure.
Hey, wouldn’t it be great if the next administration prosecuted the architects, starting with that punkass Gruber?
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Mitt Romney - the real architect.
Mitt Romney - the real architect.
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He’ll be regurgitated by the Repubs for 2016 so you’ll get to see his smiling face again.
Yeah, well, if the grand plan is to scuttle Trump and replace him with Romney, the GOPe covers their tracks.
Brilliant!
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