Category: OPINION
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Post-Roe, rural women would face more obstacles; retired health director says the issue is about men, women, sex and control
Bertie Salyer —– “Trigger laws” would make abortion in Kentucky and 12 other states illegal if Roe v. Wade is overturned. That would disproportionately affect rural women, who are more likely than their...
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OPINION: Insurers say killing bill hospitals, pharmacists backed against pharmacy benefit managers saved Kentuckians money
Tom Stephens —– By Tom Stephens Executive Director, Kentucky Association of Health Care Plans Pocketbook issues were front and center in this most recent session of the Kentucky General Assembly...
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It’s Child Abuse Prevention Month. Child sexual abuse plagues Kentucky. Using it as a political ploy is disgusting, editor writes:
Linda Blackford —– OPINION By Linda Blackford Lexington Herald-Leader If you vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson, you’re “pro-pedophile,” according to QAnon darling Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, and if you talk...
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Opinion: Legislature is moving bill that would restrict abortion rights while ignoring several filed to help babies and mothers
Photo illustration from Dreamstime —– This opinion was originally published in the Lexington Herald-Leader. By Linda Blackford Herald-Leader Opinion Editor Why bother writing about abortion access in Kentucky? The die is cast, as...
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Medicine treats individual patients; public health looks at causes and prevention of disease. Public-health dean explains her work.
Dean Donna Arnett, Ph.D. —– By Grace Colville UKNow, University of Kentucky Living in a pandemic has been an adjustment for everyone. Public health plays a larger role in the...
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Rep. Andy Barr writes about bill, named for his late wife, to spur research into the heart ailment that killed her in June 2020
The late Carol Barr with her husband and daughters Eleanor and Mary Clay. —– By U.S. Rep. Andy Barr Though every holiday season without my wife Carol will be difficult,...
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Why we must listen to science and get vaccinated for Covid-19
Kevin Kavanagh, M.D. —– By Kevin Kavanagh Recently Medicare announced a 14.5% increase in Part B premiums, primarily driven by rising health-care costs and utilization during the pandemic. Our inability to abide by...
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TV commercials from aging quarterbacks and others for private Medicare plans don’t tell the whole story, such as high deductibles
Joe Namath, in image from Medicare Advantage TV commercial aired in Fall 2020 —– By Trudy Lieberman It seems nothing ever changes when it comes to hawking insurance to fill...
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As emergency rooms fill up across the country, two doctors give guidance on what to consider before going to an ER
Waiting in an emergency department (RogerStanmore.com) —– Emergency rooms across the country are overrun, largely due to Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases, and people who go to ERs face long wait...
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Reports of anti-vaccine preachers spur weekly newspaper to use its ‘bully pulpit’ and forswear ‘neutrality in times of moral crisis’
The Press spotlighted the Covid-19 deaths of a local couple. —– Many Kentucky newspapers are making extra efforts to increase vaccination against the coronavirus, by fighting misinformation with the facts,...