Day: October 16, 2023
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Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7; your advantage isn’t always with Advantage; use caution when choosing a plan
By Julie Appleby KFF Health News Consumers know it’s fall when stores start offering Halloween candy and flu shots — and airwaves and mailboxes are filled with advertisements for Medicare...
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State Sen. Stephen Meredith calls for a new health-care delivery system in Kentucky, with Medicaid block grants to local governments
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News It’s time to invent a new health care delivery system in Kentucky, and it should be driven by health-care providers, state Sen. Stephen Meredith...
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Report: Big political giver boosted stake in psychedelic drug treatment research implicitly endorsed by Cameron, then funded anti-Beshear ads
Kentucky Health News Around the time Attorney General Daniel Cameron implicitly endorsed using 5 percent of the state’s opioid settlements to fund research to win federal approval of a psychedelic...
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State launches new one-stop website, CoverYourCough.ky.gov, with information on Covid-19, flu and RSV, updated weekly
The state Department for Public Health has launched a new one-stop website for information on Covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus. “As we continue into the fall and winter cold and flu...