Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Mostly along partisan lines, legislature overrides governor’s veto of bill that would ban gender-affirming care to minors in Kentucky
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Republicans in the Kentucky House and Senate voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of Senate Bill 150, which bans gender-affirming care...
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Beshear vetoes bill that would ban gender-affirming care for Kentuckians under 18; Republicans are expected to override it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a far-reaching bill that would ban transgender minors’ access to gender-affirming care and sets strict rules for teaching...
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Legislature takes away Medicaid dental, vision and hearing benefits Beshear granted; he indicates he will do it another way
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In October, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear announced the expansion of dental, vision and hearing benefits for 900,000 Kentucky adults on Medicaid. On March 16,...
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Opinon: Gender dysphoria may have a basis in human biology
By Kimberly Kennedy Most of us witnessed with horror the passage of anti-transgender bill SB150 by legislators who ignored overwhelming opposition. Since Gov. Andy Beshear is expected to veto it,...
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Beshear bans sale of products with tianeptine, unapproved drug with opioid-like effects that has caused overdoses and deaths
Gov. Andy Beshear has signed an emergency regulation that bans the sale of products containing tianeptine, an unregulated drug known as “gas station heroin” that produces opioid-like effects, his office...
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Get prepared now for Medicaid renewals, Kentucky
By Kennan Wethington President, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Kentucky When Covid-19 hit three years ago, the federal government responded with a series of actions made possible by...
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Bill would address health-care workforce shortage with public-private fund to help Kentuckians enter health-related professions
In response to Kentucky’s health-care workforce shortages, the legislature has sent Gov. Andy Beshear a bill to create a fund with private and public money to help more Kentuckians pursue...
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Legislature passes bill aimed at preventing doctors’ burnout by saying they don’t have to report seeking mental-health treatment
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern A bill aimed at preventing burnout among physicians has cleared both chambers of the General Assembly. Senate Bill 12 unanimously cleared the Senate in late February and the...
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Beshear gets bill to regulate Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In response to a court decision that deemed products containing Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol to be legal, a bill to regulate products with the substance has...
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George Rawlings, who founded industry that recovers health-care costs from patients who get settlements or judgments, dies at 77
George Rawlings, who made a fortune by starting an industry that recovers health-care providers’ costs of caring for patients who later get settlements or verdicts for injuries from accidents and...