[Iran Press TV] In a stunning reversal, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested on Friday that he would not support repealing Kynect, Kentucky's state-run health care exchange. The marketplace has been a model for effective Affordable Care Act implementation, enrolling over 400,000 people in health insurance coverage since October.
McConnell reiterated his support for repealing the Affordable Care Act at a presser in Louisville, Kentucky, but would not say if Kentuckians enrolled in coverage should lose insurance. Responding to questions from WHAS news hound Joe Arnold about whether the state's exchange should be dismantled, McConnell said, "I think that's unconnected to my comments about the overall question here."
The answer is in stark contrast to McConnell's past pledges to repeal the law "root and branch" and claims that reform is "not fixable." Still, this isn't the first time McConnell or his allies have sought to soften the senator's stance on the Affordable Care Act. In February, ads released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on McConnell's behalf portrayed the Senate Minority Leader as "leading the fight to fix this Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... mess" without mentioning the words "replace" or "repeal." Since the end of the first open enrollment period, a growing number of Republican candidates have avoided discussing outright repeal or answering questions about their states' Medicaid expansion proposals.
McConnell's Democratic opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, opposes taking away Obamacare coverage from those who have it, but would not say if she would have voted for the health care law when it passed in 2010.
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He submitted a bill to lift the debt ceiling for the Democrats and then tried to filibuster his own bill "to please the Republicans", this guy is such a Democrat.
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