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8 August 2026
Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed.
Experts disagree with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s belief that loosening Medicaid guardrails helped alleviate the state’s drug crisis. Ryan Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader By the end of 2020, Kentucky’s newly elected Gov. Andy Beshear had one goal above all others: Keep people alive. The state was battling two merciless threats.
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