Asking the Right Questions About Health Care
On the Media | May 5, 2017
After a chaotic and charged week, House republicans celebrated the passage of their Obamacare repeal bill. But there's the political debate over health care, and then there's the lived reality, in communities across the country. The gap between the two is extremely clear in Kentucky, which is both governed by staunchly anti-Obamacare politicians and has seen record numbers of people benefiting from the Affordable Care Act. Brooke talks with Mary Meehan, a health reporter for Ohio Valley ReSource and Eastern Kentucky University's WEKU.fm, about how to reconcile the apparent contradictions and what national coverage of the health care debate tends to miss.
