A new Gallup survey has found that the two states with the most dramatic drop in their respective rates of uninsured are Kentucky and Arkansas, both deeply red in presidential years.
In Kentucky, the state’s Republican party, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, has been steadfastly opposed to the health care law that enabled its rate of uninsured halve over the past year. McConnell has repeatedly called for Obamacare to be repealed “root and branch,” while Congress has voted scores of times to rescind it. It remains law.
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All 10 of the states with the highest uninsured rates have refused to carry out those two key parts of Obamacare. “States that have implemented two of the law’s core mechanisms — Medicaid expansion and state health exchanges — are seeing a substantially larger drop in the uninsured rate than states that did not take both of these actions,” Gallup announced. “Consequently, the gap in uninsured rates that existed between these two groups in 2013 nearly doubled in 2014.”
