Author: Al Cross
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Free webcast for journalists TODAY at 2 p.m. ET will explore rural use of health-insurance exchanges
If you lack health insurance, you’re more likely to live in a rural area. Put another way, if you’re rural, you’re more likely to lack health insurance. Nearly one in...
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Middle- and high-school students invited to create 30-second videos discouraging prescription drug abuse, win prizes in contest
Attorney General Jack Conway and his Keep Kentucky Safe partners invite Kentucky middle- and high-school students to compete in the annual Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Public Service Announcement contest. Contestants...
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Ky. health-insurance exchange working better than elsewhere; website to undergo scheduled maintenance this weekend
Despite its first-day problems, Kentucky’s new health-insurance website was the nation’s top performer in the new system, the director of state health reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation told The...
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State health-insurance website crashes after 24,000 use it; later, officials say almost 78,000 visited it by 7 p.m.
The website of Kynect, the state’s new health-insurance marketplace, crashed at 8:30 a.m. today, because so many people were trying to use it, Gov. Steve Beshear’s office said. Similar problems...
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Conway says ruling in his Oxycontin lawsuit means he will seek settlement of $100 million or more
Attorney General Jack Conway says he wants Purdue Pharma to settle for $100 million or more after it missed a deadline to respond to his arguments in his lawsuit over the...
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Delaying individual mandate, as GOP now proposes, would wreck exchanges and Obamacare, Democratic aide warns; McConnell says Republicans can’t get Democratic votes they need in Senate
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-reform law and its requirement for individuals to...
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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling opponents of Obamacare to “Get over it.” Now, as...
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Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the ‘new asylums,’ Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky’s prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it’s part of a growing national problem. “America’s lockups are its new asylums,” Gary...
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Watch out for specious claims about health-reform law in highly politicized debate; Sen. Paul among those found off base
The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday’s opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under the federal health reform law. “Obamacare” has been politicized...
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Clinics in 9 Appalachian counties will offer high-tech eye screenings to head off common ailment that blinds diabetics
Kentucky has one of the nation’s highest rates of diabetes, but half the diabetics in rural Kentucky don’t have annual eye exams – even though nearly 30 percent of diabetics over 40...