Tag: General Assembly
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New legislator from Northern Ky. hopes to apply background as nurse and state anti-drug officer to her work in General Assembly
A registered nurse who has been Northern Kentucky director for the state Office of Drug Control Policy is among the newly elected Republicans who now rule the state House. Kim...
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Kentucky likely to get measures to restrict malpractice lawsuits
The coming Republican control of state government makes it likely that doctors and other health-care providers will get from the General Assembly what they have wanted for more than 30...
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Rep. Tom Burch, ousted as House Health and Welfare chair by Republican takeover, gives the gavel to Rep. Addia Wuchner
Rep. Tom Burch By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. – After 30 years as chair of the House Health and Welfare Committee, Rep. Tom Burch of Louisville is out, due...
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Increasing Kentucky’s cigarette tax by $1.50 a pack would decrease youth smoking, Cancer Society lobbyist writes
To decrease youth smoking in the state, the Kentucky director of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network is calling for an increase of $1.50 per pack of cigarettes and all...
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Legislator, citing rural doctor shortages, files bill to give physician assistants authority to prescribe controlled substances
A Republican recently elected to the state House has filed legislation that would allow physician assistants to prescribe controlled substances, something they can do in every other state beginning in...
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Bevin administration says syringe exchanges funded by state grants must be one-for-one after initial supply to a user
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News image: lexingtonhealthdepartment.org The administration of Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is requiring syringe exchanges funded by state grants to be limited to one-for-one trading of...
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Nonprofit groups question Bevin’s plan to require ‘volunteer’ work from able-bodied adults who aren’t primary caregivers
Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to require volunteer work from unemployed, able-bodied Medicaid members isn’t sitting well with the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, which represents nearly 600 of the state’s nonprofit groups,...
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Philosophical divide evident at Medicaid oversight meeting; Bevin officials say revised plan will be sent to feds ‘shortly’
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News As Gov. Matt Bevin prepared to ask federal officials to let him change the state’s Medicaid program, a discussion at a legislative committee meeting...
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House Task Force on Vulnerable Kentuckians hears complaints about proposed changes to Medicaid program
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News BEATTYVILLE, Ky. – Several speakers at the July 15 meeting of the House Task Force on Vulnerable Kentuckians said Gov. Matt Bevin’s proposed changes to the...
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Ky. and Southeast lack statewide smoking bans; political climate here has shifted focus to local bans; Hazard just passed one
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky hasn’t passed a comprehensive smoke-free law, but neither has any state in the Southeast, notes a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...