NYT:
The Affordable Care Act allowed Robin Evans, an eBay warehouse packer earning $9 an hour, to sign up for Medicaid this year. She is being treated for high blood pressure and Gravesâ disease, an autoimmune disorder, after years of going uninsured and rarely seeing doctors. âIâm tickled to death with it,â 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. âItâs helped me out a bunch.â
But Ms. Evans scowled at the mention of President ObamaââNobody donât care for nobody no more, and I think heâs got a lot to do with that,â she explainedâand 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 âpulled out root and branch.â
No state's citizens have benefited more from the Affordable Care Actâhuge enrollment numbers, thousands getting to see doctors, some for the first time in their livesâand polls show that Obamacare is hugely popular in Kentucky. Yet voters in that state will likely elect a slate of GOP candidates who have pledged to repeal Obamacare.
Sigh.
If Republicans take the Senate and make gains in the House, and if they somehow manage to repeal Obamacare, I'll try to remember to send Ms. Evans a sympathy card.