Medicaid endgame

Today's Courier-Journal included this great editorial:

The silver lining is that the outcome this week is probably as good as could have been expected, given yet another display of obstructionism by Senate President David Williams.

...The Medicaid funding crisis was serious business and should have been handled that way. After all, the state pays hundreds of millions of dollars each year on the program, which serves about 820,000 poor and disabled Kentuckians. Yet, Sen. Williams, who hopes to be Gov. Beshear's Republican opponent this fall, treated the issue as a political football. Instead of striving for consensus, he spent the regular session grandstanding, berating the Governor for “failing” to manage Medicaid properly.

When it comes to Kentucky's needs, nothing is more important to Sen. Williams than Sen. Williams.