Steve Beshear: “Some people will die because they do not have the coverage that they need.”

If you block grant Medicaid, in essence, you are going to send me less money than it takes to run the program.

Public health has always been the foundation of the United States’ success since its founding. It has extended life expectancy. It’s improved community health. It’s made everyday life much better for millions of people.

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.

It looks like Congress is pulling the Pontius Pilate routine and washing their hands of all of our folks and then blaming it on me.