Much of the race has focused on Beshear's decision to expand Kentucky's Medicaid program to insure an additional 400,000 people and his creation of a state-run health insurance exchange where an additional 100,000 people bought private health insurance plans with the help of federal subsidies.
Bevin says taxpayers cannot afford to continue to pay for the health insurance of a quarter of the state's population. He has promised to repeal the exchange and expansion and replace them with something else, possibly requiring recipients to pay a small premium for coverage.
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