As Kentucky prepares for the second year of Obamacare sign-ups, there’s little of the public hoopla that surrounded last year’s historic launch in a state widely seen as a national model for its smooth roll out.
But after the Republican sweep of Congress, there’s new uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act’s future — with the state’s newly re-elected senator, soon-to-be Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, saying he plans to target elements of the law.
Despite campaign calls to tear out the ACA “root and branch,” a repeal is highly unlikely given President Obama’s veto power, experts said. But McConnell said he may seek to eliminate both a tax on medical devices and the “individual mandate,” which requires most Americans to carry insurance and penalizes them if they don’t.
“We’ll be addressing (the ACA) in a variety of ways,” McConnell said at a post-election news conference in Louisville.
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