As a candidate, Bevin said Kentucky simply can't afford to have so many people on the Medicaid rolls and that he plans to apply for federal waivers to create a revised program that is affordable and requires its clients to have some "skin in the game" thorough premiums, co-payments, deductibles or health savings accounts.
He has also said he would dismantle Kynect, which has been cited as a national model, saying it is unnecessary because a federal exchange is available. He can do that because the exchange was established by executive order and can be removed by executive order, but it won't be immediate.
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