Insight – How one U.S. state is leading the charge to dismantle Obamacare | Reuters

By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Robin Respaut | FRANKFORT, Ky./SAN FRANCISCO FRANKFORT, Ky./SAN FRANCISCO For nearly three years, Democrats and former President Barack Obama pointed to Kentucky as one of the Affordable Care Act’s biggest success stories.A poor, rural state that straddles the North and South, Kentucky was an early adopter of the healthcare law commonly known as Obamacare and saw one of the country’s largest drops in the uninsured rate.Now Kentucky is poised for a new distinction: to be the first state to save money by reducing the number of people on Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled and a central tenet of Obamacare.If successful, Kentucky would provide a roadmap for other states who are worried about paying an increasing share for people on Medicaid. A new Republican health law that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, along with state initiatives like Kentucky's, would dramatically change the national healthcare system and cut more than $800 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years.

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