What Governor Bevin is trying to do is trying to treat the expanded population of able bodied, not traditional Medicaid of frail, elderly, disabled people that are chronically ill, he is trying to take able bodied and treat them more like traditional insurance.
Guthrie explains Bevin's approach to Medicaid for able-bodied individuals.
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