Keeping Kentuckians in the dark on their health

This entry in the CJ is pretty interesting in what it doesn’t say:

The future of health care was on the minds — and signs — of some 100 people who took the downtown Louisville amid the federal government shutdown.

The assembly of concerned locals at the “Healthcare Not Authoritarianism” rally on Oct. 4 drew from various advocacy and political groups, including organizing groups Louisville Democratic Party, Indivisible Louisville, and 50501KY, among others.

On the fourth day of the shutdown, demonstrators lined either side of Broadway in front the Gene Snyder Federal Building, many of whom carried signs condemning cuts to Medicaid under President Donald Trump’s major tax-cut legislation and possible threats to funding tied to the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.

At no point in the story is the word Kynect.

Seems like a pretty significant omission, considering Kynect is Obamacare. Years ago, when the soon-to-be-gone Republican senator, Mitch McConnell was running for re-election, he campaigned he was going to get rid of Obamacare, but he was going to keep Kynect, fully knowing that they were the same thing.

He was playing Kentucky voters for suckers, and he got away with it. Partly because media types never let their audience know that X=Y.

The threats to the Affordable Care Act are threats to Kynect, but readers of the CJ would never know that if they didn’t know it already.

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