Morning Must-Read: Dylan Scott: 60% Of KY GOPers Buck McConnell, Support Medicaid Expansion
Dylan Scott: 60% Of KY GOPers Buck McConnell, Support Medicaid Expansion:
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky… found that 60 percent of self-identified Republicans said they support expansion. In total, 79 percent of Kentuckians agree…. McConnell spokesman Robert Steurer dismissed the findings. ‘Most new Obamacare enrollees are not on private plans, but are added to the state’s struggling Medicaid program’, he said, ‘where one hundred percent of these costs will be picked up by taxpayers and where there is already a shortage of physicians accepting Medicaid patients’. More than 120,000 Kentuckians have enrolled in Medicaid through the state’s Obamacare website since it launched in October…