Category: HEALTH POLICY
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‘Momnibus’ bill to improve maternal health passes on final day, after being attached to another bill to avoid floor fight on abortion
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News On the last day of the 2024 legislative session, a bipartisan bill aimed at improving Kentucky’s dismal maternal-mortality rate was finally...
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Legislature rejects pleas, cuts tobacco-prevention spending; passes vape bill some say could spur youth smoking
UPDATE, April 16: Senate President Robert Stivers and Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer told Kentucky Health News that no one spoke to them about more money for tobacco prevention, and...
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Legislature rejects pleas, cuts tobacco-prevention spending; passes vape bill some say could spur youth smoking
By Sarah Ladd Kentucky Lantern In a year when the American Cancer Society asked the Kentucky legislature to increase spending on tobacco prevention, lawmakers cut it and passed an anti-vaping...
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Bills to become law on vaping, pharmacy reform, vaccinations, drugs, at-home blood testing, coverage of cancer screening, more
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News In its 2024 session the Kentucky General Assembly has passed dozens of health-related bills that address a range of topics. With one day left...
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Several Ky. water systems exceed new federal limits for ‘forever chemicals’; all systems must test for 3 years, correct if needed
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Several Kentucky water systems, mostly on and near the Ohio River, will have to fund ways to reduce certain cancer-causing substaces for which the...
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Guthrie warns making telehealth expansion permanent must be paid for; costs uncertain, but projected to be several billion dollars
If telehealth services are to remain expanded as they were in the pandemic, Congress must offset the cost, U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green said in opening a House...
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Raising Ky.’s health status has ‘a ways to go,’ hospital chief says; Chandler says people need to demand change in health policies
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A discussion on health care at the April 4 Lexington Forum led to information about the many challenges Kentucky faces when it comes to...
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Legislature, Beshear pass law to protect independent pharmacies in Kentucky from commercial pharmacy benefit managers
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to address an unfair playing field between commercial pharmacy-benefit managers and independent pharmacists has been signed into law and will take effect...
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Republicans talk about making Obamacare better, not repealing it, so it is ‘becoming a politically untouchable part’ of the safety net
Kentucky Health News “A law once derided as ‘Obamacare’ and demonized as a big-government power grab is becoming a politically untouchable part of the American safety net, like Social Security...
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Sports betting has taken off in Kentucky, but counselors for people with a gambling disorder remain in short supply in the state
Legal sports wagering launched in Kentucky in September. Residents can bet online and at brick-and-mortar venues like horse racetrack facilities, no longer needing to cross state lines. Some experts say...