A health care governor

Gov Beshear gets some well-deserved praise in today's Courier-Journal:

Two weeks after the launch of Kynect, Kentucky’s online health exchange where people can shop for health insurance, it’s off to a successful start.

It’s also attracting favorable national attention. And so is Gov. Steve Beshear, who launched Kentucky’s site and accepted the federal expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act despite opposition of some Republicans in the General Assembly.

...Beshear, whose legacy may well become that of expanding care and improving health statewide, said political debate over the law wasn’t a factor for him.

“This is about our people,” he said. “This is what they need.”