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Let's leave it behind and go back to working for employers that can provide health care. >> reporter: kentucky signed on for the affordable care act three years ago. the uninsured rate in kentucky was slashed in half, dropping from 20% to 7.5%. over a million people in the state rely on some form of obamacare. >> do you mind if i listen to your heart? okay. >> reporter: in louisville, kentucky's biggest city, dr. barbara casper is on the front lines. she's seen a big change in patients since medicaid was expanded there and a state-run exchange was launched. >> people come to see the doctor. th...

Stories. in 2013, kentucky avoided the glitches that plagued the unveiling of the federal exchange website with a smooth rollout of its own state-run exchange known as connect. okay, i love the kentucky story. we are, however, going to pause for a moment. as i told you at the beginning, coming back from this break, there is a press conference for an update on the plane crash that killed 224 people last week. the press conference from cairo. take a listen. >> translator: -- our keenness to give the public opinion locally and globally of every variables in the investigations. the committee has m...

Roughly 50,100 and change signed up since the beginning of october. that's a state that has its own state run exchange. california, washington, kentucky, other ones like that. the federal system is more challenging. >> that comes to the heart of it, how people hear about this law and all of the things it does and assess whether it's doing anything for them. and we were looking at the trend lines and they've actually barely budged in the sense since 2010 you see there the lowest line, the life of the line is people who actually think the aca has been good for them, that they are better off with...

Plans in texas during that time, a state with more than six times as many people as kentucky and does not have a state run exchange. here's why else kentucky's is fascinating it just happens to be home to one of -- mitch mcconnell, who just happens to be up for re-election next year, a race he will not have to run. joining me now -- offer of consumer information insurance oversight, office responsible for implements obama care. were you surprised to read about the success in california and connecticut and minnesota and washington in the l.a. times today? >> no, i wasn't, let's take california ...

People signed up for private plans in texas during that time, a state with more than six times as many people as kentucky and does not have a state run exchange. here's why else kentucky's is fascinating it just happens to be home to one of -- mitch mcconnell, who just happens to be up for re-election next year, a race he will not have to run. joining me now -- offer of consumer information insurance oversight, office responsible forme for implements obama care. were you surprised to read about the success in california and connecticut and minnesota and washington in the l.a. times today? >> n...