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Andy Beshear: “That $800 million is a wild extrapolation from a small…”

Featuring: Andy Beshear, Democratic | Governor of Kentucky

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Gov. Andy Beshear - Team Kentucky Update 04.15.26

Published | Video Starts at 33:51

So again, it's not explaining to you the things that Medicaid has to do and then trying to make some big thing out of it. That $800 million is a wild extrapolation from a small subset and then suggests that every single duplicate enrollee is not in Kentucky. It comes from databases that the federal government would not give states access to. We finally have it, and we're finding very low numbers in that. It is nothing remotely close to that. (33:51–34:03)

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Asserts that the $800 million figure is an exaggerated extrapolation from a small subset of data.

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