and isn't steve beshear pretty swell? [applause] i had an opportunity when i was the chairman of the democratic governors association he was one of our candidates that year and a big win in kentucky. so i have no steve for a long time, and i wasn't surprised, but thrilled with his incredible leadership and promotion of health care in his state knowing and having grown up in cincinnati knowing a lot about the health status in kentucky i can tell you that he has done a lot of wonderful things. but the best legacy project that he will leave behind is a far healthier and more financially secure infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of people in kentucky and that's something that will go down in the history books. now, i saw a lot of you around the country as i traveled. we went back and i was in about 47 cities just during the open enrollment period. and all of america was always there. you always were part of these amazing coalitions. and what i know is you didn't have the easiest jobs the work was tough. it was perhaps e

and isn't steve beshear pretty swell? [applause] i had the great opportunity, when i was chairman of the democratic governors' association, steve was one of our candidates that year and a big win in kentucky. so i have known steve for a long time and i wasn't surprised but thrilled with his incredible leadership and promotion of health care in his state, knowing, having grown up in cincinnati, knowing a lot about the health status in kentucky, i can tell you he has done a lot of wonderful things but the best legacy project that he will leave behind is a far healthier and more financially secure infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of people in kentucky and that's something that will go down in the history books. now, i saw a lot of you around the country as i traveled. we went back and i was in about 47 cities just during open enrollment. enroll america was always there. you always were part of these amazing coalitions. and what i know is, you didn't have the easiest job. the work that you did was very tough. it was p

[applause] >> is an honor for me to be here with the governor beshear, the great commonwealth of kentucky. although i'm from pennsylvania i have a fondness for kentucky, and even in the dark days of the rollout, the governor beshear is one of the folks that stood up in front of the national media and talked about how things were working in kentucky. and although many of us were not so sure at the time, he was steadfast in his belief that this was the right way to go. also, secretary said elliott, whether she was the insurance commissioner of the governor of kansas were her latest role as the secretary of health and human services, regardless of one's politics, it is amazing that an implementation of this magnitude of this complicated nature could be done in such a short period of time so i'm thrilled to be here with them and of course with drew, who you heard from. i would like to acknowledge another group of people in this room. if you think about the grassroots effort, if you think about educating people on the need for enrolling in some plan to cover themselves in to cover their famili