Author: Al Cross
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Health reform law has been good for hospital finances, health-care costs, Obama administration says
U.S. hospitals have saved billions of dollars because the federal health-reform law has provided coverage for patients who were once charity cases, the Obama administration announced Monday, the fifth anniversary...
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Reform law ‘quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve,’ McClatchy Newspapers reporter writes
The federal health-reform law is still controversial and still facing a legal challenge, but “is quietly accomplishing the goals it was created to achieve,” Washington correspondent Tony Pugh reported for...
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Obama says health-reform law working better than expected
President Obama made this statement on the fifth anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: On the five-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, one thing couldn’t be...
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As tax deadline nears, most uninsured appear likely to choose penalty; some with coverage are having to refund part of subsidy
Kentucky Health News Most people facing a tax penalty for not having health insurance appear likely to pay it instead of taking advantage of a special opportunity to but coverage...
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At roundtable on food and agriculture, Prince Charles says we need to reconnect with the food system and nature, keep stock
Prince Charles “called for urgent restructuring of local and global economies to save humanity from itself” in a whirlwind visit to Louisville on Friday, James Bruggers reports for The Courier-Journal....
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Earth can’t afford to keep supporting our consumerist society as it now exists, Prince Charles tells Louisville audience
Kentucky Health News Transcript of The Prince of Wales’s speech at the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, following an introduction by Wendell Berry (subheads added) Ladies and gentlemen, it has...
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As part of Louisville visit, Prince Charles attends roundtable on health and the environment with health and environmental leaders
Press pool report by Al Cross, Kentucky Health News His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the foot of the Big Four Bridge, an old railroad bridge recently...
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Wendell and Mary Berry welcome Prince Charles and wife to Louisville, where prince will focus on local food and sustainability
In honor of a royal visit on Friday to Louisville by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, who will be highlighting issues of sustainability and local food,...
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West Virginia to involve Kentucky in examination of studies that link health problems to mountaintop-removal coal mining
Kentucky Health News The administration of Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia “said Tuesday that it would initiate an evaluation of the growing body of studies that have found residents...
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Warren County school board bans tobacco use on campuses and by students and employees during extracurricular school activities
The Warren County Board of Education voted 4-1 on March 16 to ban the use of tobacco “by students, employees or those on school grounds or during extracurricular school activities”...