Author: molly_burchett
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Most Kentuckians who bought health insurance on Kynect will pay higher premiums next year
Most premiums for private health insurance purchased through Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, Kynect, will increase in 2015. Most of the people who have used Kynect have been added to Medicaid,...
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Kentuckians like Kynect coverage as long as it’s not called ‘Obamacare,’ and some don’t like to talk about it
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you — unless you’re talking about the word “Obamacare” and its impact...
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Edelen says rural hospitals are top issue for rural U.S. and rural Kentucky; says some pols in state want to give up on rural Ky.
By Molly Burchett and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – State Auditor Adam Edelen has finished his series of town-hall meetings across the state to get a...
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Health-care forum examines ‘incredible change’ in Kentucky’s health-care system, looks forward to more access to care
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News What does health-care reform mean to Kentucky? What impact has Medicaid expansion had? Can we work together to do care differently...
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Expert says Ky. is one of 13 states where people in individual insurance market are better off than before reform law
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most of the focus on Obamacare has been on people who are no longer uninsured, or those who had to get...
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Newspaper in Alabama, a similar state in many ways, gives its readers a look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare
The latest newspaper to look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare is in Alabama, a state that offers almost a mirror image of Kentucky: another Southern state with a very high...
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Kentucky spends less than a penny of its tobacco-settlement money on prevention programs; few states do very much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and...
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Kids Count shows Ky. tops in smoking by pregnant mothers, has a wide range of local data about children’s well-being
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The annual Kids Count report on children’s well-being, released Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Kentucky Youth Advocates, says the state leads the...
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Book chronicles Hall’s 40-year battle for health, against poverty
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Eula Hall has been called an angel, dynamite, a force to be reckoned with, and a living legend. She has dedicated her life to...
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Night lingers in Appalachia, but there are rays of sunlight
Harry Caudill talked with U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedyduring his visit to Eastern Kentucky in February 1968. In 1963, Harry Caudill of Letcher County published Night Comes to the Cumberlands:...