it's our pleasure to welcome kentucky governor steve bashear to the show.s is joan walsh who is editor at large. thanks for joining us. governor, give us a sense of how obamacare or kynect it's called there in kentucky, is working now. >> you know, chris, the numbers speak for themselves. from the time we opened up our health care exchange on october 1 at 12:01 a.m., kentuckyans started swarming all over the website. today, nine months later, 521,000 kentuckyans, almost 1 in 10 have signed up for affordable health care coverage. it's been amazing to see the interest, the demand for health care and to see this uninsured rate drop like it did in kentucky from over 20% to less than 12% in nine months. man, that tells me that our people are going to thrive because of the affordable care act. >> do people see this in real functional family kitchen table terms or in partisan terms? in other words, i said on the show my dad was a life long republican. he really loved medicare. he loved being on it. he was getting something for once in his life that he didn't have