Tag: Affordable Care Act
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Feds plan to let states impose co-payments on Medicaid patients above poverty level to encourage them to expand the program
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News If Kentucky expands its Medicaid program, it will probably be able to reduce the cost by requiring patients whose incomes are...
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Health reform will let insurers charge smokers up to 50 percent higher premiums, which is likely to have a big impact in Kentucky
“Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance” because the health-care reform law will let health-insurance companies charge smokers as much as 50 percent more starting next year...
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Health departments prepare for challenges posed by health-care reform law
No one really has a clue what changes from the health-care reform law will mean to Kentuckians and public health departments are preparing for the uncertainty, reports Kristy Cox of...
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Poll shows registered voters in Ky. favor expanding Medicaid
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News A statewide poll last month found that most registered voters in Kentucky, when presented with specific facts and options, generally favored expansion...
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Health-care law addresses the most common chronic health problem in children, tooth decay, by requiring coverage for kids
Tooth decay is children’s most common chronic health problem, and the 2010 federal health-care law addresses this problem by requiring insurers to cover pediatric dental services. But some advocates are concerned...
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Republicans moving to gain a say over Beshear’s decisions about insurance exchange, Medicaid expansion; Democrat dismissive
Kentucky Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, left, said yesterday that she would file legislation that would block Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear from setting up a health-insurance...
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Health reform drives hospital mergers and affiliations, and makes clinical collaborations more important
Is your community’s hospital one of the many rural hospitals considering sale, merger or affiliation with a larger hospital or group of hospitals, all options that are becoming more common,...
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Chart shows how to get coverage under federal health reform
The core of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is helping people get health insurance, beginning next year. That will be relatively simple for some people, but complicated for...
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Calorie counts on your Coke and Pepsi machines coming in 2013
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, for starters, will start displaying calorie counts on vending machines in an effort to encourage consumers to make lower-calorie choices, starting in...