Steve Beshear: “It costs a fraction of what it costs to handle the problem the other way.”

You cannot incarcerate yourself out of an opioid emergency. You have to treat your way out of it.

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

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.

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.