LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell says he would try to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he’s elected Senate majority leader.
But the veteran senator won’t say what would happen to the 421,000 Kentuckians who have health insurance through the state’s health care exchange.
McConnell told reporters Friday that the fate of the state exchange is unconnected to the federal health care law. Yet the exchange would not exist, if not for the law that created it.
Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes has embraced the state exchange. But she won’t say if she would have voted for the law had she been in office.
The two are vying in a nationally-watched race for McConnell’s Senate seat. Republicans need to gain six seats in the November elections to control the Senate.
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Mitch McConnell has spent the last 5 years trying every imaginable ploy to put a stake through the heart of the Affordable Care Act. To try to distinguish between the KY Obamacare Exchange and Obamacare itself is about as cynical as it gets. Sadly, the local polling seems to indicate that he might get away with it because the Exchange is very popular while Obamacare itself is not. Go figure.
Crazy part is that I’m sure most voters will believe him. They don’t even realize that the exchanges are from the ACA. Just like on Kimmel when everyone was again Obamacare but all were for the Affordable Care Act…What did most say…I don’t want that Obamacare. After all these years people still don’t get it. They think Obamacare is an insurance.
“McConnell told reporters Friday that the fate of the state exchange is unconnected to the federal health care law.”
Hahahahahahaha!!! Turtles are sooooo funny.
I’ve been saying this for years.
Next it will be THEM who fought against the Democrats tooth and nail for the Affordable Care Act.
They’re really dumb and predictable because I aren’t that smart.
It doesn’t help that the MSM is so invested in the stenography business that they can’t be bothered to help educate the public. They just reprint the lies pretty much without comment, because “fair and balanced.” Feh, pooey.