Issue Position: Solve the Medicaid Funding Crisis

Issue Position

Your next State Representative is going to be elected to a General Assembly that must find hundreds of millions of dollars for expanded Kentucky Medicaid. The federal government only promised to pay for the Medicaid expansion for three years, after which Kentucky will be left to find its own way to pay for the overburden. In some rural parts of Kentucky, we have already seen healthcare facilities shut down because of this poisonous law, and we cannot afford to lose any more hospitals and jobs in rural areas. The Liberal Democrats are content with the status quo and willing to accept mediocrity, which is exactly why we should all fight for a new, conservative majority in Frankfort. A few areas we need to see improved in health care include:

We need to work tirelessly to be granted a Medicaid Waiver so we as Kentuckians, not bureaucrats in Washington, can solve our own problems.
We need to cut out the waste, fraud and abuse from Kentucky's Medicaid program so that the program will work more efficiently and help those who need it most.
We need to develop asset testing for the Medicaid System that would more thoroughly screen recipients than income testing alone to ensure that those in the system actually need the system.
We must create a residency requirement for Medicaid eligibility by requiring someone to live in the state for a minimum amount of time before qualifying for costly Medicaid services.
We need to expand access to quality health care in Kentucky again, not at the expense of our medical professionals and working families.

As your representative, I will oppose higher health care costs. It's about time that we create legislation to promote more affordable health care options.

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