Steve Beshear: “The results were compelling. The study concluded that expanding Medicaid would inject $15.6 billion into Kentucky's…”

Some people will die because they do not have the coverage that they need.

That requires communication. That requires sitting down in good faith and talking through things and recognizing the differences, and then coming to some kind of agreement that will get us to where we all want to go.

There’s no question that political partisanship has caused a lot of this disconnection on the local level, and it’s come, basically, from the federal level.

The path forward is not a 'replacement' plan that covers fewer people and provides less robust benefits.