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States Helped by Obamacare Go to GOP

Republicans want to repeal it.

Three of the states where the uninsured rate dropped dramatically thanks to President Obama’s signature health-care law voted to elect Republican U.S. Senate candidates—just as Michael Tomasky points out today. In Arkansas, Kentucky, and West Virginia, counties that saw the largest gains in insurance coverage were the strongest supporters of Republican candidates, whose party wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In addition, voters gave the Arkansas legislature a Republican supermajority and elected a Republican governor who could affect the state’s Medicaid expansion, which insured 200,000 people. Back in September, The New York Times reported that in Kentucky, people who were happy with their coverage provided by the law were still unhappy with Democrats who passed it.