Kentucky is one of six states to have started allowing state employees to drop state health insurance coverage on their children and pick up federally subsidized CHIP through changes implemented in the 2010 federal health reform law.
The Beshear administration claims to have shifted $2 million in health costs onto the federal government already.
Unwinding ObamaCare will be hard enough when we get the opportunity. With the program's tentacles now having extended into the state government workforce, it will be just that much harder.
The silence from Frankfort's Republicans on state action on ObamaCare is deafening.
Governor Beshear should back off this policy and stop all activity that further tangles Kentuckians into ObamaCare.
