The chickens are coming home to roost.
When you lie through your shit-eating grin about the ACA and people wake up and get a better deal under it -- Mitch done fucked himself.
When you lie through your shit-eating grin about the ACA and people wake up and get a better deal under it -- Mitch done fucked himself.
Mitch McConnell, like House Republicans has an Obamacare problem. He's still insisting that Obamacare has to be repealed by "pulling it out root and branch," but Kentucky's Kynect, established under Obamacare, just keeps on racking up the successes. Most recently, analysis by alternative weekly LEO Weekly shows that Kentuckians enrolled in private insurance plans through the law "are saving more than $200 each month on their insurance premiums through federal tax subsidies made possible by the Affordable Care Act."
Kynect officials say that of the 82,795 Kentuckians who purchased a qualified health plan (QHP) through the state exchange, 74 percent of them received federal subsidies to help pay for their premiums. Of those who received such assistance, their average premium was reduced by 74 percent.
The total cost of the premiums for such individuals under Kynect was also remarkably affordable. While their average premium without factoring in federal tax credits was $335 per month, the average tax credit amounted to $257, leaving these individuals with an average premium cost of $88.40. Under the "silver" planthe most popular among Kynect consumersthe average premium was reduced 79 percent to just over $65 per month.