Health law needs time to take root

From today's Herald-Leader:

(Mitch) McConnell's rants against what he calls Obamacare are purely political. He's hoping to capitalize on President Barack Obama's unpopularity in Kentucky by linking Democratic candidate Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes to the president's signature achievement. He's also hoping to mollify Republican primary voters who preferred a government default to perceived government overreach.

McConnell's alternatives (interstate insurance sales, high-risk pools, employer associations and reforms to be named later) are Republican boilerplate.

They fall far short of what Kentuckians were gaining from Obama's reforms, even before the Oct. 1 opening of kynect.com. which has been enrolling McConnell's constituents at a rate of 1,000 a day.