Members of the state Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board questioned the administrators of Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, kynect, in a board meeting Wednesday. Some appeared skeptical of the benefits of providing a state-level versus federal health exchange.

Officials argued the exchange, which former Gov. Steve Beshear started under the federal Affordable Care Act, allows Kentuckians who need support to access a number of resources via a single platform and application.

“When we operated on the federally facilitated marketplace, those families had to fill out another application. They had to go somewhere else. They couldn't just move from one program to the other if their circumstances changed,” said Lisa Lee, the Commissioner for the Department of Medicaid Services.

But some a

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