UK professor says criticism of Medicaid plan angered Gov. Matt Bevin, cost him his job [View all]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A retired University of Kentucky dental professor claims his scathing critique of Gov. Matt Bevin's plan to reshape Medicaid, eliminating dental benefits for many adults, prompted retaliation from the Bevin administration that cost him his job.
Dr. Raynor Mullins, "who had a long and successful career" with UK over 40 years promoting oral health, found himself in conflict with the Bevin administration after he and four colleagues filed public comments last year criticizing the Medicaid plan as poorly conceived and likely to drive up costs and dental disease, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Lexington.
Bevin was "pissed off" by the comments, Stephanos Kyrkanides, the dean of the UK College of Dentistry, told Mullins, the lawsuit said.
"Kyrkanides told Dr. Mullins it was a very bad strategy to 'piss the governor off' and Dr. Mullins' public comments had indeed 'pissed off the governor,'" the lawsuit said.
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