Steve Beshear: 'Medicaid expansion was the single-most important decision I made ... we changed the course of Kentucky's history.'
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today September 7, 2023 When former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear took office in 2007, the Bluegrass State had many challenges — not the least of which was lack of health care for working folks — and limited resources to address them. "Kentucky faced a number of fundamental weaknesses, not unlike Mississippi and a lot of other Southern states," Beshear recently told Mississippi Today."We had a lack of educational attainment.
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