Lexington, KY local and state news by the Lexington Herald-Leader | Kentucky.com
The number of uninsured Kentuckians dropped from 14.3 percent in 2013 to 8.5 percent in 2014, according to census data released last month. That's the biggest drop in the rate of uninsured for any state. Meanwhile, Kentucky's health insurance market for individuals and small businesses is its most robust in years.
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The wealthy businessman has pledged to shutdown the state's healthcare exchange and he's also expressed concerns about the expansion of Medicaid in Kentucky under the Affordable Care Act.
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That's what I like to see. The GOP leadership screwing over their base. And just in time for the presidential elections. Thanks GOP! See ya in 2016!
Last month the Kentucky Hospital Association released a stinging indictment of the financial calamity KYNECT has imposed on them in a report titled “Code Blue,” which
concluded in bold print:
“The bottom line: Kentucky hospitals will have higher losses and lower operating margins due to the ACA [and KYNECT], with a projected net loss of $1 billion from 2014 to 2020.” That finding was based on “an independent analysis of the ACA’s impact on Kentucky hospitals” conducted by the Dobson/DaVanzo consulting firm.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal health reform law enacted in March 2010, was intended to slow the growth in health care spending and expand health coverage to the uninsured with a variety of reforms. These reforms include:
Important changes in rules relating to private
health insurance, such as eliminating limits on pre- existing conditions and lifetime coverage caps and prohibiting health premiums from being based on a patient’s health condition
Allowing individuals to buy health insurance from online health insurance exchanges (Kentucky’s is known as Kynect) and providing financial subsidies to help buy coverage for those whose incomes are below 400% of the poverty level ($79,160 for a family of three)3
Expanding Medicaid coverage (the federal/state health coverage program for low-income citizens) to people with income up to 138% of the poverty level ($27,310 for a family of three)4
As noted earlier, the implementation of these reforms in Kentucky has resulted in 413,000 additional Kentuckians being signed up for health coverage as of April 21, 2014, with approximately 75% (330,615) enrolled in Medicaid and 25% (82,795) buying private coverage through Kynect.5
http://www.new-kyha.com/Portals/5/NewsDocs/Code Blue Report Web.pdf
NOW the KEY NUMBERS out of all this:
75% (330,615) enrolled in Medicaid and 25% (82,795) buying private coverage through Kynect.5 "
First THERE never were
46 million "uninsured" Americans as Obama kept lying and idiots never figured out!
“I don’t have to explain to you that nearly 46 million Americans don’t have health insurance coverage today. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, 46 million of our fellow citizens have no coverage.”
A F...KING HYPERBOLIC statement and YES A LIE as Obama KNEW that of the 46 million, 10 million were not legal citizens!!!!
PROOF THAT WAS A LIE??
1)
10 million Obama counted were not Americans... not citizens per the Census:
Proof:
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 - Income & Wealth - Newsroom - U.S. Census Bureau
2)
Obama failed to get 14 million people eligible for Medicaid enrolled. That's all that is needed. That leaves 22 million.
http://coverageforall.org/pdf/BC-BS_Uninsured-America.pdf
3)
18 million under 34 don't NEED insurance. Can afford employers' plans as they make over $50k. That leaves 4 million.
CRISIS OF THE UNINSURED: 2009
THERE NEVER WERE 46 million but less then 4 million YET NBC,CBS,ABC NEVER EVER called Obama on these lies!
AFTER ACA was passed Obama agreed 10 million of the 46 million were not legal!!!
So too in Kentucky! Proof is that 75% of the supposedly signed up were MEDICAID!!!! All they would have had to do was sign up for Medicaid.
But Obama and other idiots NEVER wanted to solve the problem of less then 4 million total AMERICANS that wanted and needed coverage!
It would have been so simple! Called "Uninsured Health Insurance Co. (UHIC)" But not one of Obama et.al. ever looked into this!
A simple premise that would have covered ALL the 4 million with a $5,000 per year premium paid for by taxes lawyers 10%....JUST AS ACA taxed
tanning salons! This $27 billion would provide all the 4 million that qualified means tested for UHIC and their claims would be paid for!
But the majority of people NEVER questioned the phony 46 million figure!