Kirkpatrick has staked her candidacy on her support for President Obama’s disastrous policies, telling Arizona families that Obamacare would protect their healthcare coverage and ensure that Arizonans could keep their health plans:
That empty promise was exposed when Arizona’s Obamacare co-op announced it would shut down, leaving nearly 60,000 Arizonans without healthcare coverage:
- “A nonprofit health insurance co-op created to provide competition to traditional insurance companies in Arizona has been removed from the federal marketplace, just days before a new enrollment period begins Sunday…Roughly 59,000 Arizonans covered by Meritus will now have to scramble to find new coverage, according to the state.” (“Arizona Health Insurance Co-Op Taken Out Of Marketplace,” Associated Press, 10/31/15)
Kirkpatrick doubled down on her broken promises when she voted against the Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013, designed to help Americans facing insurance policy cancellations as a result of Obamacare’s failures. Kirkpatrick held the line, protecting Obamacare at all costs.
Ann Kirkpatrick’s blind loyalty to Obamacare left nearly 60,000 Arizonans without healthcare coverage – and her broken promises will only continue to haunt her.