Tag: Affordable Care Act
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State insurance exchanges are good for farmers and other rural residents, farmers union president writes
Farmers and rural Americans have much to gain from state health-insurance exchanges under federal health reform, since “Rural residents often have the hardest time getting health insurance,” the president of the Wisconsin...
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CBO estimates court ruling will mean 3 million fewer people than predicted will get insurance, saving federal government $84 billion
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 3 million fewer people will get health insurance than expected before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The...
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Doctors shifting from private practice to large hospitals for more security under health-care reform
Associated Press photo by Michael Schennum. The days of hanging up a shingle and opening shop are becoming more and more unusual for doctors. Afraid of being left without protection in...
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Questions about health-care reform law answered in comprehensive Courier-Journal report
Reporter Laura Ungar has put together an excellent primer in The Courier-Journal that appears to answer all the key questions people have about the federal health-care reform law. Reporters would do...
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Forums set to explain state insurance exchange and its new opportunities for coverage, little known to most who will be eligible
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Now that Gov. Steve Beshear has issued the order to create a state health insurance exchange, the state is scheduling public forums to explain...
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Are fallacies about health reform becoming accepted wisdom? Former New York Times editor Bill Keller says he fears so
“A number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom” about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, former New York Times editor Bill Keller writes for the paper....
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Beshear issues order to create insurance exchange as GOP legislators carry symbolic vote against lease to house it
As Gov. Steve Beshear issued an executive order to establish a state insurance exchange this afternoon, lawmakers voted along party lines against a lease that would have housed employees of...
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Biggest problem with health-care reform law is advocates’ poor sales job to the American public, Rep. John Yarmuth tells C-J
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News The biggest problem with the federal health-care reform law is not the law itself, but the fact that “We’ve never done as good a...
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Beshear tells feds he plans to create an insurance exchange
Gov. Steve Beshear. Photo by TheCourier-Journal Gov. Steve Beshear has re-confirmed his plans to create a state health insurance exchange, this time telling the federal government of his intention. Beshear...
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Chart shows impact of Medicaid expansion or rejection
A one-stop graphic that spells out what’s in store for states that don’t elect to expand Medicaid is the subject of a report by The Washington Post‘s Sarah Kliff. The...