I want to take this opportunity as I often do to talk about the experience in Kentucky with the Affordable Care Act.
We have reduced the uninsured rate by almost 50 percent in Kentucky.
I appreciate your holding this hearing. I think as has been demonstrated, both sides are very much interested in rooting out all the waste, ...
We have more than a half-million people who are newly enrolled in Medicaid and in private insurance as a result of the ACA.
Under ACA, Kentucky would experience added economic activity of $30 billion, the creation of 40,000 new jobs.
There is a related issue when we talk waste as well, and I wanted to talk about prescription drug costs.
The ACA, the uninsured rate across the state has been reduced by almost half.
Under the expansion of Medicaid, more than 520,000 Kentuckians now have insurance who didn't have it before.
The Deloitte Firm concluded that over the next 6 years the ACA, in Kentucky, would create 40,000 new jobs.
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