Tag: Affordable Care Act
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Doctors in emergency rooms say they are busier since Obamacare began; hospitals struggle to handle extra patients
Nearly half of emergency-room doctors say their ERs have seen an increase in patients since health reform went into effect, and 86 percent say they expect the increase to continue,...
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Safety-net hospitals, haven for the uninsured, are seeing more covered patients since the expansion of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hospitals that most often treat the poor and uninsured are seeing fewer uninsured patients since the new health law’s expansion of Medicaid, Phil Galewitz...
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Republican governor of Indiana wants to expand Medicaid under Obamacare and existing state program; federal OK needed
Approximately 24 states still have not participated in health reform’s Medicaid expansion, which provides coverage for adults who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Some Republican-controlled...
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Poll finds contrasting views of Obamacare and Kynect
Most registered voters in Kentucky have an unfavorable view of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act when it is called Obamacare, but a plurality think favorably of Kynect, the...
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Beshear says Kynect signups show importance of health-care reform to Kentucky’s health; Republican foes keep attacking it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Opponents of federal health reform kept up their drumbeat Tuesday as Gov. Steve Beshear announced the latest, but still not quite final, signup figures...
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Republicans wait for elections and chance to roll back Medicaid expansion; few Kentucky Democrats defend Obamacare
Though thousands of their constituents have benefited from it, Republican state legislators say they are planning to roll back Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection...
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Kentuckians who ran into problems signing up for insurance on state website get a second chance through April 11
Kentuckians who had trouble starting or completing their application during the open enrollment period can still apply for subsidies and purchase health coverage at Kynect.ky.gov through midnight April 11. This applies...
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State will reopen health-insurance enrollment for eight days, starting Friday, citing heavy demand
Kentucky will extend its deadline to sign up for insurance under federal health reform, citing a surge of last minute applications. Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that Kentuckians will be...
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KentuckyOne Health lays off 500 of 15,000 employees, says it won’t fill 200 vacancies; cites Obamacare and merger
KentuckyOne Health, which dominates the Louisville hospital market and has scores of locations across the state, says it has laid off 500 of its 15,000 employees and identified 200 vacancies...
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County analysis shows wide range in numbers of previously uninsured who now have coverage through state exchange
Since enrollment for coverage through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opened Oct. 1, more than 255,000 Kentucky residents have signed up; because a goal of the law is...