Author: Al Cross
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Kynect opens special enrollment period March 2-April 30 to give people without health insurance a chance to avoid tax penalty
The state health-insurance exchange, Kynect, is reopening enrollment in March and April to allow signups by Kentuckians who discovered that not having health insurance means they have to pay a...
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Humana plan members can join Weight Watchers free for six months, get ‘a significant discount thereafter,’ companies say
Humana Inc. and Weight Watchers International Inc. are teaming up to help employers attack the rising level of obesity and its health-related impacts. Employees in Humana-managed, employer-sponsored health plans now...
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Harrodsburg Herald, a weekly newspaper, does three-part series on tobacco issues in Mercer County and statewide
In a state where more than one of every four adults smoke, tobacco is an issue in every county, but it’s rare for weekly newspapers to take a detailed look...
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Beshear, in D.C., speaks bluntly about state’s health issues and ‘rank politics’ that keeps some states from expanding Medicaid
Beshear at the Brookings Insttitution By Al Cross Kentucky Health News An interesting thing sometimes happens to governors when they travel to Washington; they speak a little more freely than...
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UK gets approval to add 120 hospital beds, bringing its total to 945 and long-term building project’s cost past $1 billion
The University of Kentucky has received state approval to add 120 beds to its hospital complex, which will bring its total to 945 beds at UK Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children’s...
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Students in poor Louisville neighborhoods learn healthful behaviors in Farm to Family Initiative
A program to fight childhood obesity and foster healthy habits in Louisville’s under-served youth has seen positive results since its launch in October 2013, says KentuckyOne Health. Results include: 41 percent...
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Prince Charles to keynote Louisville health and food symposium
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles Prince Charles of the United Kingdom will keynote a health symposium in Louisville March 20. The prince of Wales and his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, duchess...
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Almost 103,000 Kentuckians now on private health insurance through Kynect, state says
More than 158,000 Kentuckians signed up for private health insurance or Medicaid coverage in the second round of open enrollment under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The...
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Obamacare deadline is extended for those who had technical problems; state may also extend it for those facing a tax penalty
Were you unable to sign up for Kynect health insurance by the Sunday deadline because of technical problems? You now have until Feb. 28 to sign up. “And like other...
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Opinion: Toward a healthier Kentucky, with a smoke-free law
By the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation It is no secret that Kentucky is among the unhealthiest states in our country. Kentucky is No. 7 in cardiovascular deaths, No....