Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Health Law Falls Flat With Kentucky Voters, Even Those It Helps - NYTimes.com

Robin Evans benefits from Obamacare but she's not budging.
She'll vote for Mitch McConnell who voted to keep her uninsured and sick.
Tip O'Neill was wrong.  All politics is tribal. She's sticking with the white people's party.  - gwc
Health Law Falls Flat With Kentucky Voters, Even Those It Helps - NYTimes.com

by Abby Goodnough

“I’m tickled to death with it,” Ms. Evans, 49, said of her new coverage as she walked around the Kentucky State Fair recently with her daughter, who also qualified for Medicaid under the law. “It’s helped me out a bunch.”

But Ms. Evans scowled at the mention of President Obama — “Nobody don’t care for nobody no more, and I think he’s got a lot to do with that,” she explained — and said she would vote this fall for Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader, who is fond of saying the health care law should be “pulled out root and branch.”
Ms. Evans said she did not want the law repealed but had too many overall reservations about Democrats to switch her vote. “Born and raised Republican,” she said of herself. “I ain’t planning on changing now.”
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