Thursday, July 20, 2017

BevinCare will more than double uninsured population in Kentucky

No, Trumpcare is not dead.  It will not be dead until Democratic candidates take back the House and the Senate.  So let's not forget just how horrible Bevincare will be in Kentucky.

The folks at Vox called our attention to this amazing—and terrifying—chart produced by the Urban Institute that purports to show the state-by-state increase in their non-elderly uninsured populations if Mitch McConnell manages to pass his big tax-cut bill with the health insurance provisions still attached. Some of the numbers are staggering. Some states are in triple digits; not coincidentally, they are mostly states that embraced the Affordable Care Act in one way or another. For example:

West Virginia: 299 percent.
California: 138 percent.
Colorado: 131 percent.
Oregon: 179.8 percent
Washington: 144.1 percent
Michigan: 192.6 percent.

If you're wondering about what the chart says regarding the states represented by the allegedly wavering Republican "moderates" in the Senate, the uninsured rate in Rob Portman's Ohio would increase by 184 percent and in Dean Heller's Nevada by 76.5 percent. Oh, and in Kentucky, which is represented by Rand Paul, who thinks that even the current bill is too liberal, the uninsured rate is estimated to climb 231 percent. I'm sure this is all Obama's fault somehow.

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