Posted on 03/09/2016 10:05:54 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
After two terms in office, former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has a fight on his hands to convince first-year Republican Gov. Matt Bevin to halt a rollback of the state’s health insurance exchange and transition expanded Medicaid recipients to the federal government.
If Bevin is successful in transitioning services, Kentucky would be the first state in the nation to shut down a working state exchange.
Beshear has created a non-profit group, Save Kentucky Healthcare, to oppose changes to the healthcare system he put in place during his tenure.
Kentucky’s exchange was heralded as a national success under the Affordable Care Act, but Beshear warns this isn’t about two people, but rather about the health of the state.
“This is not about Gov. Bevin and me,” Beshear said in an interview with Pure Politics. “I know that politically people like to posture it like that. This is about healthcare for Kentuckians. I hope at the end of the day Gov. Bevin and I agree that every single Kentuckian deserves to have affordable healthcare.”
“I don’t know whether he believes it or not,” Beshear continued. “I hope he does. Because a leader in Kentucky, a governor in Kentucky, I think needs to believe in the health of his people and providing healthcare for the people.”
Under Beshear, Kentucky expanded Medicaid, a social health care program to help low-income earners, to those earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Beshear also implemented an integrated state-based exchange known as kynect, where uninsured Kentuckians could be matched with Medicaid if they met the federal guidelines or qualified health plans.
The federal government under President Barack Obama paid for Kentucky to set up and pay for the exchange under Beshear.
“It works,” Beshear said of kynect.
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Also love the logic - “we” didn’t pay for it because the Federal Government did...so Kentucky taxpayers didn’t pay for it - the Federal taxpayers did. That’s the logic.
How much is he paying himself to lead this non-profit group? I know he ain't doing it for free.
It works....it only cost 130k dollars per enrollee....and just think about it... how many years of insurance could have been purchased at this price?
Bureaucracy in action. Liberal Bureaucracy to be specific. The type where money is siphoned off and distributed among the political groups. Government employees are paid off with lucrative retirement packages and yearly bonuses plus whatever they can snatch and not get caught.
Meanwhile, prescription medicine costs are going through the roof while benefits are curtailed.
...”Beshear has created a non-profit group, Save Kentucky Healthcare, to oppose changes to the healthcare system he put in place during his tenure.
How much is he paying himself to lead this non-profit group? I know he ain’t doing it for free.”...
Sounds Clintonesque, doesn’t it? I have heard that KY has a long history of Democratic corruption in the State. Also, Beshear is a big Obama supporter.
Good point.. Prayers for Mr Bevins success.. Our entire country is at stake and it starts at the most local level. I am not even sure we can turn it all back, but prayers for those in the nasty fight against the ultra wealthy exemptocrat class.. Just the changes in my tiny town are unbelievable.
...”That’s what happens when you set something up illegally without statutory authority, Ex-Gov. Oh, and yeah - it isn’t sustainable and would collapse and hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted on the website system that could have fed a lot of hungry kids.”...
Republican Wildcat..I am sure you probably saw this from the new Governor Bevin. #G2Work#PassTheBudget
Beshear, STFU and go back to your trailer park. You had your chance.
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