Despite changes to the budget bill, Governor Andy Beshear is still not satisfied with what he's saying today.

During his weekly news conference, the governor talked about what he sees as the budget's shortcomings.

This budget is going to cause a lot of harm if not changed.

So on the Medicaid side, we make projections of what Medicaid is going to cost.

It's it's the cost of care times the number of people.

And you need that amount of money.

Otherwise you've got to start looking at changing coverage, or other drastic measures.

The House budget has $1.4 billion less than it for Medicaid, than the projection.

What will that do?

It's going to hammer rural and urban health care.

The big ugly bill already did enough.

I mean, $1 trillion of Medicaid cuts, it's projected to impact, if not close, 35 rural hospitals.

On top of that, you got people that are falling off the, the ACA exchanges that reimburse these same hospitals more than Medicaid, but because Congress, extended, tax cut for the wealthy but refused to extend a tax credit for hard working Americans to afford health care, those hospitals get hit again.

And now these are all Kentucky hospitals and clinics, $1.4 billion less than what they will need to operate.

Basically, they're just taking what the federal government did and hurting our health care organizations that much more.

The governor also said the budget doesn't give Kentucky State Police the money they need to do their jobs, and it was critical of the lack of money for pre-K, something he's repeatedly advocated for.