Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear’s attempt to ram ObamaCare down the throats of an electorate who rejected Barack Obama resoundingly twice is, unsurprisingly, not going well. Internal chaos at the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, the Department of Insurance, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and the Kentucky Democratic Party is masked only superficially by bureaucratic purring about how great ObamaCare is going to be and | Read More »
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange (KHBE) plans to introduce misleading insurance rate information today damaging the quality of public discourse about health reform and attempting to prejudice citizens’ legal efforts to stop Frankfort’s illegal takeover of healthcare in the Commonwealth. The KHBE attempts to irresponsibly and misleadingly conflate 2013 small group health premiums with 2014 individual market premiums inside the exchange to falsely suggest that | Read More »
Paying an average salary of over $120,000 a year for state workers to run a health insurance web site supposedly created to save consumers money isn’t sitting too well with some Kentuckians. That’s total annual compensation of over 15 million dollars for 119 employees and contractors of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, created in Frankfort to implement much of the federal health reform law known | Read More »
President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President, We need your help with a unique problem in Kentucky. As you probably know, the Bluegrass State is the only state in the nation to vote against you twice and then take steps to implement both a state-run exchange and the optional Medicaid expansion. While that may not present much | Read More »
Kentucky is the only state in the nation to vote against Obama in 2012 and then adopt both major optional provisions of ObamaCare. Fortunately, Kentucky’s Constitution prohibits the governor from unilaterally creating new bureaucracies such as a state-run health benefit exchange. So that’s why some Kentucky tea partiers are suing to cancel his actions. In the first court hearing yesterday, Beshear’s attorney called into question | Read More »
On Monday May 20, two things will happen that could result in preventing Kentucky from being the only state to reject Obama in the 2012 election but then implement both a state run ObamaCare health insurance exchange and the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion. The first hearing in Franklin County Circuit court of Adams v. Beshear, over shutting down the Kentucky Exchange, will take place at 9am | Read More »
Late this past week, plaintiffs in Adams v. Beshear picked up vital new weapons and added a novel legal approach which might be fun to watch. First, Adams v. Beshear became Adams, Cloyd and Durand v. Beshear. Michael Dean, of Irvine, Kentucky, then joined the plaintiffs as attorney on the case. Some credit Dean’s aggressive legal tactics with prematurely ending the political career of former state Senator | Read More »
Two very active tea party leaders in Kentucky have joined the lawsuit to force Governor Steve Beshear to follow Kentucky law and stop trying to set up the ObamaCare health insurance “exchange” without legislative approval. Sarah Durand, President of the Louisville Tea Party, has represented liberty issues on the state and national level extremely well for several years. Dawn Cloyd would probably be president of | Read More »
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell broke his recent silence on guns this morning with an anti-Second Amendment statement inconsistent with the beliefs of his constituents. “I believe the government should focus on keeping firearms out of the hands of criminals and those with mental issues that could cause them to be a threat to society,” McConnell said in a press release. This is the same kind | Read More »
Republican operative David Adams filed a lawsuit this week in Franklin County Circuit Court to force a shutdown of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, the state-run option for ObamaCare in the Bluegrass State. Governor Steve Beshear’s immediate response suggests he knows he has a problem. He said through a spokeswoman the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky grants him authority to create a new bureaucracy | Read More »
When running for re-election in 2008, Sen. Mitch McConnell campaigned heavily on his ability to bring home bacon. He proved the point by voting for bailouts and massive piles of debt most Republicans realize we can’t afford. As the wind has shifted, so, of course, has Sen. McConnell. In fact, he took a break recently from caving in on the next debt ceiling deal to post a | Read More »
The federal government won’t be shut down next week in order to protect ObamaCare funding. And that’s supposed to be the good news. At least that’s the case if you get your Republican talking points from Senator Mitch McConnell. It’s a different story, however, if you ask Senator Rand Paul and Representative Thomas Massie. In the last 24 hours, Senate and House bipartisan majorities both passed the | Read More »
The late Gatewood Galbraith’s ardent advocacy of marijuana and hemp was easy to lampoon, but the endurance of his message can revolutionize American politics for those who now embrace it. In short, the Republican party should seek to become the party of cannabis. Most opinions about repairing the Republican Party now focus on tweaking messaging or more aggressively courting various demographic groups. This approach | Read More »
Competitors to a growing Lexington, Kentucky company would like to see Wildcat Moving forced to load up their trucks and their 31 employees and get out of the state. Unfortunately for all of us, some Frankfort politicians in both parties appear more than eager to make it so. At issue is a bizarre Kentucky law requiring anyone wishing to start a moving company to receive | Read More »
Readers will awaken Sunday to national news coverage of the most powerful Republican in Washington D.C. hurling a boulder at two liberal Louisville activists for suggesting erroneously on Twitter that his wife is from China. This is what passes for the “ultimate outrage” at a time in which we strain at petty slights but swallow whole imaginary fiscal crises like the sequester and big government blunders like providing funding for | Read More »
Sen. Mitch McConnell has never been a big fan of the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative Washington D.C. group committed to replacing moderate Republicans with fiscal hawks. It’s about to get a whole lot worse for him. The Club has released its 2012 Congressional Scorecard which shows Sen. McConnell with his lowest score since 2008. Think bailouts. The 2012 votes that could cost Sen. McConnell dearly | Read More »
Kentucky’s Senate Republican caucus has agreed to approve all of Governor Steve Beshear’s executive branch appointments this year in exchange for nothing, President Robert Stivers’ office has confirmed. This will not do. Kentucky conservatives have a great opportunity to fight back against this cave-in mentality and exposing Frankfort’s ridiculous “new tone” nonsense, which is political speak for giving up the farm. Of fifty one confirmation resolutions filed | Read More »
Kentucky’s Health Benefit Exchange has finally coughed up the Budget Narrative from their monster $182 million ObamaCare grant application that came through for them on January 17. In it, they describe the titles, duties and cost of 119 employees for the web site purportedly designed to make it easier for us to buy health insurance. The average annual pay plus benefits for 119 employees comes out to $122,650. | Read More »
U.S. House Republicans’ effort to “resequence” the federal debt discussion needs a little help. I get the logic of Speaker Boehner’s “no budget, no pay” bill with the creation of a debt ceiling date set to May 18 so someone other than Obama knows when default occurs. Rep. Andy Barr, my Congressman, voted for the measure on Wednesday. I appreciate his logic and the idea | Read More »
Jackson County Sheriff Denny Peyman has some advice for federal officials attempting to confiscate legal guns held by citizens in his jurisdiction: “go ahead, make my day.” Sheriff Peyman says he is very concerned about proposed federal legislation that could result in massive gun ownership bans and orders of confiscation. “My office will not comply with any federal action which violates the United States Constitution | Read More »
Is your state setting up an ObamaCare health insurance exchange? If it is, your local Obamacrats should have a cost estimate for how much their services will cost each year starting in 2015. This presents a great opportunity for those of us in at least some of the states trying to throw their people in the deep end of the pool. Think about it: no | Read More »
Sen. Mitch McConnell has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to consider pulling cheaper generic versions of some pain medicines off the market before they become available to consumers in 2013. The controversy involves release of prescription opiates in generic form lacking a tamper-resistant feature intended to prevent some abuse of brand name drugs like Oxycontin. The very best possible outcome of this action | Read More »
Late Tuesday afternoon, Michigan’s state Senate Insurance Committee will approve House Bill 5805, the “Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act.” The bill doesn’t need any Democrats’ votes to become law in Michigan, but it does need a closer look. The concept is simple: religious health sharing is medical coverage designed to serve people of a similar faith while also avoiding government regulation. Health | Read More »
Five state House Republican candidates yesterday urged Kentucky Senate President David Williams to unilaterally dismantle a legislative pension grab costing taxpayers millions of dollars. Chris Hightower, Lynn Bechler, Jason Crockett, Bryan Lutz and Matt Lockett agreed to the following statement: “Should Senate President David Williams accept appointment to the circuit judgeship in his home district, we encourage him to set a strong example for future | Read More »
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