Category: YOUR HEALTH
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Leaders in Medicaid, public health and advocacy entering UK College of Public Health Hall of Fame
The father of Kentucky’s Medicaid program, the co-author of a popular smoking-cessation program and a leading advocate for mental health and the disabled will join the University of Kentucky College of...
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Diabetics have increased risk of complications from flu
Certain groups of people, including diabetics, are at risk of serious flu complications each year, according to a report from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. More than 500,000 Kentuckians, over...
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State health-insurance website crashes after 24,000 use it; later, officials say almost 78,000 visited it by 7 p.m.
The website of Kynect, the state’s new health-insurance marketplace, crashed at 8:30 a.m. today, because so many people were trying to use it, Gov. Steve Beshear’s office said. Similar problems...
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Conway says ruling in his Oxycontin lawsuit means he will seek settlement of $100 million or more
Attorney General Jack Conway says he wants Purdue Pharma to settle for $100 million or more after it missed a deadline to respond to his arguments in his lawsuit over the...
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Federal shutdown won’t stop Obamacare, Ky. insurance exchange
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal government is on the brink of shutdown after House Republicans refused to pass a budget unless it involved a delay in the...
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Workers, employers blame Obamacare for higher premiums, but experts say the causes are a lot more complicated than that
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News While the main provisions of the federal health-reform law are only now taking effect, some Americans are already saying it doesn’t work and are...
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Here are the basics of buying health insurance on the state exchange that opens Tuesday
On Tuesday, Americans can begin buying health insurance through state exchanges created by federal health reform. Journalists have spent months trying to understand the reform law in an attempt to...
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Northern Kentucky health board supports statewide smoking ban
The main health board in Northern Kentucky, where local smoking bans have stirred much controversy. has endorsed the idea of a statewide ban on smoking in all places of employment....
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Delaying individual mandate, as GOP now proposes, would wreck exchanges and Obamacare, Democratic aide warns; McConnell says Republicans can’t get Democratic votes they need in Senate
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-reform law and its requirement for individuals to...
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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling opponents of Obamacare to “Get over it.” Now, as...