Thursday, December 5, 2013

Kentucky Governor To Mitch McConnell: Get Your Facts Straight On Obamacare


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/05/kentucky-governor-mitch-mcconnell-obamacare_n_4391860.html

WASHINGTON -- It was just Wednes
day night that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) railed against the Affordable Care Act, calling it a "catastrophic failure" for people everywhere.
"This is beyond fixing. It needs to be pulled out root and branch and we need to start over," McConnell said during an interview on Fox's "On The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "It's been a catastrophe for health care and for the economy at large."
But the governor of McConnell's home state came to Capitol Hill on Thursday with a vastly different message: the health care law is working, and people in Kentucky can't get enough of it.
"I have a U.S. senator who keeps saying Kentuckians don't want this. Well, the facts don't prove that out," Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) told reporters.
Beshear said more than 550,000 people have visited the state's Obamacare enrollment website since it launched on Oct. 1. More than 180,000 have called into the health care call center and about 69,000 people have signed up, or about 1,000 Kentuckians per day. Of those who have signed up, he said, 41 percent are under the age of 35.
cold busted, about time this is just what we need someone from the state of the liars to come out and rebuke the misinformation.  what do those who hear this stuff and still vote for liars feel about themselves when it hits the fan and the world knows they are just as corrupt and unAmerican as their politicians
"There is a tremendous pent-up demand in Kentucky for affordable health care," Beshear said. "People are hungry for it."
The governor also boasted of the law's economic benefits to the state. Over the next eight years, he said, it will generate $15 billion for Kentucky's economy and create 17,000 new jobs.
McConnell spokesman Don Stewart responded by citing an article about 280,000 Kentuckians being forced to give up their current insurance policies as a result of Obamacare requiring stricter guidelines for coverage.
note the spokesperson completely dodged the subject and jumped back in the liars circle, if they were forced to give it up it was subpar and not worth what it was written on these same 280,000 don't know what they could be qualified for or do they and the "spokesperson" was just like always misleading with have the info.
what kind of leader is he he can't speak for himself or he just couldn't do it with a straight face, or he knows he was caught in a big fat one and to afraid to face it. well there's always his shell.