By John Cheves and Daniel Desrochers, includes “To help them balance the state budget, lawmakers plan to sweep hundreds of millions of dollars from a health insurance fund that covers 263,913 public workers and their relatives — 6 percent of Kentucky’s population. … 'What they’re trying to do right now is find that magic number that’s not quite high enough to make us storm the gates … just high enough to let them keep the shell game going with their budget numbers,' Smith said.”