Month: October 2019
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Citing legal problems encountered by Kentucky and Arkansas, Arizona suspends its plan to add work requirements to Medicaid
Section 1115 waivers are the device being used to add work and other “community engagement” rules. —– Arizona has indefinitely suspended its plan to add work requirements to its Medicaid program “due...
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Over 1/3 of Ky. students in violation of rule requiring hepatitis A shots; other immunizations fall short; report has county figures
Photo illustration from NaturalHealthNews.com —– More than a third of Kentucky school students are in violation of the year-old state law requiring them to be vaccinated for the liver disease...
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Kentucky legislators have pre-filed bills to cap the cost of insulin for some; advocate describes the ‘real cost’ of diabetes
Lisa Middleton, patient advocate —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News While legislators and health advocates work to control the surging cost of insulin, a mother with two children and...
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Four students at Grayson County High School taken to hospital after using device to vaporize hashish oil; two arrested
Four students at Grayson County High School in Leitchfield were taken to the local hospital Oct. 15, and two were arrested, after inhaling vapor or aerosol from “dab pen” devices, police said....
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Bevin and Beshear hotly debate governor’s Medicaid work rules, their effect and their cost; and their stands on health insurance
Gov. Bevin and Attorney General Beshear debated Oct. 15. (Photo by Ryan Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A key difference between Kentucky’s gubernatorial candidates is that...
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Kentucky ranks 3rd in child obesity, a disease tied to a long list of other health issues; treatment requires changes in family lifestyle
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation graphic; click it to enlarge —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More than one out of five Kentucky children between 10 and 17 are obese,...
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Attorney general hopefuls say they’d go after opioid makers
Daniel Cameron and Greg Stumbo (L-R) —– Both candidates for attorney general of Kentucky said Monday night that they would press legal action against manufacturers of opioids, and Democrat Greg...
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Weekly editor says he’s coming to Nov. 15 workshop on drug coverage because ‘We cannot continue to wear blinders’
Why should journalists attend a workshop on covering local drug problems? “We cannot continue to wear blinders and ignore this problem that is now affecting every member of our communities,”...
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Lawmakers say drug stores’ issues with Medicaid pharmacy benefit managers will be a key issue in the next legislative session
L to R: Reps. Russell Weber, Joni Jenkins and Danny Bentley and Sens. Stephen Meredith and Morgan McGarvey —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News State Rep. Danny Bentley didn’t mince...
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Feds will remind doctors to ask people with respiratory illness whether and how much they use electronic cigarettes
Federal health agencies are about to warn doctors that they need to ask “every patient with an apparent respiratory infection” about their history of using electronic cigarettes, Julie Steenhuysen of Reuters reports. The Centers...