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>> things are going great in kentucky, chris. we have 600,000 uninsured kentuckians. we have the worst health care statistics in the nation. we've had them since they started keeping statistics. and it was going to take some kind of transformational change for us to dig ourselves out of that ditch. and the affordable care act gives ne that opportunity. i have seized the opportunity. we're the only southern state to both expand medicaid and set up our own exchange. and i'm determined to change the course of kentucky's history when it comes to health care. we're in the course of doing that. kent...

Score so poorly on the average health indices. but when you hear these individuals talk, they say the affordable care act is a waste of time, a train wreck, going to destroy jobs and so on. but they have no plan whatsoever to address the needs of people that you're trying to help, basically. >> that's exactly right. you know, we've got some of the worst health statistics in the country. it's been that way ever since they started keeping statistics. and, yes, we've made some improvements. but we need a big tool to make transformational change. the affordable care act is not perfect. i'm sure we...

Launched hasn't ended. what we are trying to do right now is create space for many social struggles in existence right now in different groups that are better situated to make the demands. we stand in solidarity and develop analysis. the idea that a year in right now, we are coming up with this analysis and rolling it up for people. we should be mindful that, how do you deal with mofia capitalism. a time our government is incapable of dealing with the grip of global capital. >> i add to that. we are looking for transformational change, not transactional change. we use the tactics of act up and...

Houses and obama signed the bill. >> i sense from republicans in the house more frustration in the sense that transformational change would not be something that would be a disqualifying perspective to hold going into a new congress with a republican president. frankly, if the election is about big, big directional questions in this country and it's framed up around essentially a structural reform conservatism verses a liberal approach, i believe that's a pathway for romney to be elected, for republicans to maintain the majorities. i subscribe to your thesis that that provides for a platform a...

>> some breaking news now. longtime penn state football coach joe paterno has died at the age of 85. for more on the story, we want to turn to our national correspondent susan candiotti and cnn contributor sarah ganum. both of them have covered the penn state scandal for us for months. joining us from state college in pennsylvania, let me start with you first, susan. just for the reaction on campus. >> reporter: it's been a devastating day. a tragic day here on the penn state campus because they have lost their beloved joe paterno. the heart and soul of penn state. many of these peop...