Kentucky governor-elect Matt Bevin will remove clerk names from marriage licenses

With Tuesday’s election of Republican Matt Bevin as Kentucky’s next governor, debate over reshaping or dismantling the state’s health benefit exchange is expected to intensify.

It’s a talking point that may be hard to accomplish, said Drew Altman, chief executive of the Kaiser Foundation, a Menlo Park, California, nonprofit that studies health care.

Bevin’s “interviews and speeches”, Chitwood said, “seemed to strike a chord with evangelical voters and the election results indicate they turned out on this Election Day”.

Thursday governor-elect Matt Bevin named former Republican Primary opponent Hal Heiner to his transition steering committee. Experts predict that most will continue to do so at least until partisan passions cool after the 2016 general election.

Thousands of residents lost the health-care plans they liked, and most insurers on Kynect are increasing premiums by double-digits. Another elections watchdog, Richard Charnin, who holds a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics just published preliminary results of his analysis of the cumulative vote shares in the Kentucky governor’s race, finding that the “cumulative vote shares indicate likely fraud”. Republicans have complete control of 30 legislatures and partial control of another eight.

In two states that have kept their expansion, Arizona and Ohio, Republicans hold the governorship and control both chambers of the legislature.

Russell Moore, president of Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said in a statement, “Months ago, when Mayor Parker attempted to subpoena the sermons of Houston pastors, I argued then that the preaching of the church of God does not belong to the government and we will not hand it over”.

Bevin will seek those changes against a backdrop of major progress in Kentucky the past two years. One who welcomes the change is carpenter Clayton Johnson, 55, of Pine Bluff. It covered all costs for prostate surgery he had in December. “I guess it saved my life”. It pays for her blood pressure medication, but mainly it brings her peace of mind. “It relieves me of a whole lot of tension”.

But the Supreme Court’s landmark Obamacare decision in 2012 gave individual states the right not to participate in Medicaid expansion. Not only did he take back a seat that Democrats have controlled for 40 of the last 44 years, but he also won by a smashing margin, 53 percent to 44 percent.

Democrats suffered an additional Bluegrass blow when State Auditor Adam Edelen, the party’s top prospect for unseating Republican Sen. But two recent pieces of news ought to. They have drawn criticism for embracing part of Obamacare at home, while opposing it at the national level. In both cases, they said, “Enough is enough”.

According to one study, if states’ refusal to expand Medicaid leaves 5.2 million without coverage, those states will save $6.25 billion – but their hospitals will spend $6.4 billion more.

As Kentucky’s new governor, he will overhaul the state pension system, which is almost broke. And where you get your future presidential candidates matters. Republicans shunned the voting because most did not support Bevin, who had won his party’s nomination by just 83 votes in a three-way race. “The president will no longer be in office”.

Now, as for the Obamacare exchange in Kentucky, it is state-run.

So far, 60 votes in the GOP-led House have failed to slow the health care law’s momentum.

Jenean Hampton had previously been named in the Republican State Leadership Committee’s “15 in ’15: Races to Watch” report, meant to highlight outstanding women and diverse candidates from around the country, a Republican National Committee press release notes.

The Democratic defeats have implications for policies as well as politics. If Kentucky is a better leading indicator of the views of the entire USA population, Donald Trump as president may become a reality.

Bevin spokeswoman Jessica Ditto said the federal exchange can operate more efficiently than Kynect and avoid duplication, while also ensuring that the USA government covers cost overruns. By summer, however, he appeared to have softened his position under a barrage of Democratic attacks.

By the end of the campaign, Bevin’s Web site still called for repealing the expansion.

Large numbers of people feel so hopeless, they did not vote Tuesday.