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Lindsay Gibbs at ThinkProgress:

In 2013, 20.4% of Kentuckians were uninsured. In 2016, 7.8% were.

Speaking in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence called Obamacare a “nightmare,” and said that Kentucky was a “textbook case of Obamacare’s failures.”

There’s only one problem with those statements — Obamacare provided insurance to 20 million Americans, and Kentucky has actually been one of Obamacare’s biggest success stories.

In 2013, 20.4 percent of Kentucky residents were uninsured. In 2016, that number had fallen to 7.8 percent. Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, who actually campaigned on getting rid of Obamacare, found once he entered office that because the health care plan was helping so many people, he couldn’t kill it easily. Instead, he merely rebranded the law to make it more friendly to conservatives.

Many people in Kentucky now have insurance through the expansion of Medicaid, which was a central part of Obamacare, or Kynect, which is Kentucky’s name for its Obamacare exchange.

Numbers on the popularity of #ACA vs. Kynect vs. Medicaid expansion in #Kentucky, even though they are same thing #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/2dsRldGKmE

— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) March 11, 2017

Before Pence’s speech on Saturday, Louisville mayor Greg Fischer released a statement urging the vice president and the rest of the federal government to “slow down and get health care right — for the sake of 500,000 Kentuckians, including 100,000 Louisville residents, who have garnered coverage under the Affordable Care Act.”

But patience is not a virtue this administration has been shown to value. This week, House Republicans released their official plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. The Trumpcare plan includes massive cuts to Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, eliminates abortion coverage, and provides a huge tax break for CEOs of insurance companies making over $500,000 a year. It is being opposed by a wide range of groups, from the American Medical Association to America’s Health Insurance Plans.

It would also significantly raise prices for the poor, particularly those who are older.

Just two days after that plan was unveiled to the public, the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the legislation without any changes at 4:30 a.m. with a 23–16 vote in the bill’s favor. It is clear that supporters of the bill, including President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, are trying to fast-track the bill through Congress despite the fact that the Congressional Budget Office hasn’t yet released a report estimating the cost and how many people could lose coverage under the bill.

Pence’s speech in Kentucky — which also addressed strengthening our military and stopping undocumented immigrants from crossing the border, and Trump’s Supreme Court nomination — didn’t include many details at all about the new health care legislation. Instead, he focused on the anti-Obamacare talking points that Trump campaigned on, mainly the cost and the lack of competition in the marketplace.

While nobody is arguing that Obamacare is perfect and can’t be improved, repealing the bill without a comprehensive replacement plan would be extremely damaging. One report estimates that the Obamacare repeal could cost the United States 1.2 million jobs. Most significantly, more than 36,000 people could die each year without it, including Kentucky residents.

“Of course I worry about if my cancer were to come back what would happen, but now I have to add to that what would happen if I lose my health insurance,” cancer survivor and Kentucky resident Leah Briemer, who credits the Affordable Care Act for saving her life, told ABC News last month. “My daughter’s 18. She’s graduating from high school. I need to be here for my daughter. Help her get through college. Help her have a wedding. See my grandchildren be born.”

Gov. Matt Bevin Is Closing Kynect

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin is making good on his campaign promise to close the doors on Kynect, the state’s Obamacare exchange. While Democratic former Governor Steve Beshear and a handful of Obamacare supporters have made waves about that decision, it has raised a bigger question: Does it make sense to run a state-based exchange?

Kynect is causing higher premiums for most residents of…

As you may know, probably no state has benefited more from the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) than Kentucky.

Former Gov. Steve Beshear created Kentucky’s own marketplace called Kynect. Through the new program 500,000 people were able to receive affordable healthcare. One of Kynect’s greatest strengths are its Kynectors; employees who provide one-on-one in-person support for navigating healthcare. This is vital to our state, as much of the population lives in poverty, and has never been insured. This puts them at a great disadvantage having never navigated health insurance before. Kynectors bridge that gap by helping people understand the system, and then getting them the coverage they need.

Due to low voter turnout in the previous Governor’s election (roughly 30%, under 1 million out of over 4 million), Kentucky elected republican Matt Bevin, who has promised to dismantle Kynect in favor of moving to the federal exchange.

What’s worse, it will cost Bevin an estimated $20 million+ to dismantle the highly successful marketplace, which could have been sold to other state’s for their own use as a means to help pay for itself. Gov. Bevin thought he could use a leftover $57 million from a federal grant to start Kynect, but now the Fed has alerted him that that money will need to be returned. So on top of Bevin’s steep budget cuts (which threaten to close historically black colleges and stigmatizes liberal arts degrees, among other negative results), an additional $20 million will need to be taken from our budget to dismantle one of the greatest advances our state has made in decades.

If you are a Kentuckian who cares about people’s access healthcare, please sign Steve Beshear’s petition to save Kynect.

http://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Beshear-organizing-to-oppose-Bevins-health-care-policies-368441741.html

http://www.kentucky.com/latest-news/article59266238.html

Kentucky moves ahead with plans to dismantle health exchange

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) is about to ruffle some feathers. The new governor, Matt Bevin, getting down to business Bevin was elected in November 2015 and boy, did it sure tick off the liberals that Kentucky went red. That’s because he’s just Kentucky’s second Republican governor in more than four decades. And he campaigned on eliminating Kentucky’s healthcare exchange.  Progressives’ heads…

Kentucky moves ahead with plans to dismantle health exchange

Gov. Matt Bevin

January 12, 2016

FRANKFORT, Ky. –  Kentucky’s new Republican administration is moving forward with plans to shut down the state’s health insurance exchange, becoming the first state to cut ties with one of the key pieces of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law because of a political promise.

Gov. Matt Bevin notified federal officials in a letter dated Dec. 30 that…