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And it's going to work in kentucky. it will work all over this country. >> okay. well, these senators would say that they're the people who represent those individuals in the great state of kentucky. so take a listen to senator paul again from sunday. take a listen to this. >> you know, 61% of the people in kentucky voted for romney. 70% of people in kentucky don't like obama care. so the thing is, i'm supposed to go and fight to make bills either less bad or make them better. >> he says 70% of the people don't want it. >> it's amazing that there's -- that many thousands of people who are tryi...

Insurance. >> were you on your parents' health plan prior? >> yes. >> do you know what this means for you as a 23-year-old? >> i am not. >> i think there is good news for you, you can now stay on your parents' plan until age 26, so you get three more years of health coverage, and that's not something you have to go out and buy, and had you heard that before? >> no, i have not. you are the baearer of good new. next stop, kentucky. the senators are republicans and are against the plan, but not the governor. >> we have 640,000 uninsured kentuckyens in our state, and now we have the opportunity ...

They're our neighbors. they're the folks we sit with in the bleachers friday night. we go to church with them. some of them are family members. and this affordable care act is giving me for the first time in our history the chance to insure every single kentuckian in this commonwealth with health insurance. it's going to be a transformational change for us. over the next generation, we'll change the course of kentucky's history with this affordable care act. >> you know, i think people get confused because they think it's for the very poor. the very poor are covered by medicaid. this is going ...

640,000 will qualify for some kind of premium subsidy. win/win situation for every kentuckian. >> on a human basis, what do you think it means to a person to have health insurance that before and go to the emergency room and just sit there and hope for help? >> chris, we've got people all over this country and obviously just hope and pray every day that they don't you know, they keep their kids from going to the doctor hoping it's really nothing. bad from bankruptcy. this is what people have been living under for years and years. we've got horrible health statistics in this state. they're horr...

For that but now we're willing to compromise, i think they can't, we're going to -- i know we don't want to be here, but we're going to win this, i think. >> kentucky's governor steve beshear joins us now from louisville. that was a strange conversation. anybody would be embarrassed, someone has to teach rand paul whispering makes it worse. you can hear everything but it's like what's he hiding there? let's talk about the serious stuff. we haven't focused enough on "hardball" because it's about implementation. and governors have to do that. talk about the impact of this new law on people who g...