Category: HEALTH POLICY
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Latest bill to aid independent pharmacies passes first hurdle; would ban requiring or incentivizing patients to use mail order
Rep. Steve Sheldon —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Many Kentucky lawmakers keep siding with independent pharmacies against pharmacy benefit managers, the insurance middlemen between pharmacies and drug makers....
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Senate passes its version of state budget with many health items; $100 million would ‘support a response to the nursing shortage’
Photo from American Nurses Association —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The state Senate passed its version of a two-year state budget by a 30-6 vote Wednesday, the same...
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Bill moving in legislature would ban abortions after 15 weeks
Max Wise (Photo by Ryan C. Hermens, Lexington Herald-Leader) —– Abortions in Kentucky would be illegal after the 15th week of pregnancy, if the legislature passes a bill that cleared its...
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Must-pass spending bill will let FDA regulate synthetic nicotine, which electronic cigarette makers adopted to avoid regulation
The Puff Bar e-cigarette (Photo by Marshall Ritzel, AP) —– The spending bill Congress is passing to keep the federal government going until the fall will let the Food and Drug Administration regulate synthetic nicotine,...
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House sends Senate bill for opt-out from mask mandates, testing and vaccines, ban of mandates in public colleges and universities
Rep. Lynn Bechler —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A bill to allow parents and guardians to opt their children out of mask mandates in public schools, and ban...
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Covid-19 metrics in Kentucky continue to decline, but deaths from the disease remain high and vaccination rates are still low
Daily state Dept. for Public Health map, adapted by Ky. Health News; for a larger version, click on it. For the latest weekly map showing risk of hospitalization, suggesting masking practices, click here....
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House hopes third bill is the charm as it sends the Senate compromise legislation to address ambulance delays
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The House has passed and sent the Senate a bill aimed at improving ambulances’ response times, for both emergent...
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Most counties are still at high risk for coronavirus infections, but new CDC map is a lot more yellow, and even has some green
State Department for Public Health version of CDC map, adapted by Kentucky Health News —– By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most Kentucky counties are still in the high-risk category that calls...
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Rural vaccination rates lag in Ky. and rest of U.S., but difference in rural and urban rates in Ky. isn’t as big as national gap
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Getting vaccinated for Covid-19 is less popular in Kentucky, and in rural America, than in the rest of the country. But rural Kentuckians do...
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Compromise bill to address hospitals’ issues with ambulance services passes first hurdle; aimed at delays in transfers
Rep. Ken Fleming, R-Louisville —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With input from 13 stakeholders, a compromise version of a bill to improve ambulance responses to both emergent and...