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Steve Beshear: “As Governor of Kentucky, I embraced the Affordable Care Act for one simple reason: Kentucky's collective health had long…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
As Governor of Kentucky, I embraced the Affordable Care Act for one simple reason: Kentucky's collective health had long been terrible, and what we'd been doing for generations wasn't working.
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Steve Beshear
Kentucky

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Beshear explains his support for the ACA due to Kentucky's poor health outcomes.

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