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What Will The Second Year Of Obamacare Bring?

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What Will the Second Year of Obamacare Bring?

It has been one year since the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Despite countless Republican attempts to repeal all or part of the new law, it is still with us and shows no sure signs of disintegration. The rollout of the government’s health care exchanges experienced significant growing pains right from the beginning. Time has fixed many of these technical glitches, but has done little to quell the debate over the affordability and viability of the law.

A Rocky Start for Obamacare

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The truth is often befuddled by Republican misinformation and Democratic hype. Somewhere, in the middle, there must be some truth. Will Americans get the truth in the second year of this monumental law? Or, will the hype and misinformation continue to spread like wildfire?

The Obamacare dilemma has no greater showplace than the state of Kentucky. Ask most Kentuckians what they think of Obamacare and they crinkle their noses and spit out a few words of disgust. However, ask them what they think of Kynect and the words are a bit more positive. So, what 's Kynect? It 's Obamacare in Kentucky. The state had one of the most successful rollouts of the new health care law in the nation, and is the only southern state to have set up its own exchange and expanded Medicaid.

This surprising discrepancy between the Affordable Care Act and Kynect has been played out in the current race for state senator between Minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, and Democratic challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes. McConnell has continually talked about the repeal of Obamacare without mentioning that a repeal would impact Kynect, something most Kentuckians support. In May, an NBC/Marist poll found that 57 percent of Kentuckians disliked “Obamacare.

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