LOUISVILLE — Medicaid is becoming a flashpoint in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, as Democratic candidates attack President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and Republicans mirror their congressional counterparts on support for the GOP megabill.
Cherlynn Stevenson, a former Kentucky House Democratic caucus chair, was in Louisville Thursday morning to highlight how Medicaid cuts will affect patients in the state’s largest city. UofL Health said earlier this week that it would delay a South End birthing center project “indefinitely” after the cuts passed Congress earlier this summer. Stevenson was flanked by two Democratic Louisville Metro councilwomen — Jennifer Chappell and Josie Raymond — as well as Lindsay Micka, a labor and delivery nurse who was supposed to begin her o