Tag: health insurance
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Politicians, economists and journalists debate the reasons for, and the impact of, proposed sale of Humana to Aetna
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The purchase of Louisville-based Humana Inc. by fellow health-insurance giant Aetna Inc. for $37 billion still needs approval from federal anti-trust officials, partly because...
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Ky.’s pro-Obamacare policies led to more enrollment and support for it, but many poor are still uninsured and under-informed
Update: This story was updated to reflect the study’s results for those who said they were hurt by and not directly impacted by the ACA. State policy appears to have...
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Supreme Court upholds Obamacare subsides in all states; ruling has no direct effect on Kentucky, but focuses political debate
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the tax subsidies provided under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are legal in every state....
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Aetna is close to a deal to buy Humana, Bloomberg reports
Getty Images, via CNBC Health insurer Aetna “is said to be closing in on a deal to buy” Louisville-based Humana Inc., Julie Hyman reports for Bloomberg News, “and a deal...
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Kentucky is cracking down on Suboxone, a heroin substitute that has become a big part of the illegal trade in painkillers
A drug that was supposed to help people get off heroin has “created a new cash-for-pills market and a street trade” that state officials are trying to stop, Mary Meehan reports...
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Merger mania: Aetna bids for Humana; Cigna may want it too; Anthem has bid for Cigna; UnitedHealth makes a play for Aetna
Aetna Inc. has made a bid to buy Louisville-based Humana Inc.,”one of a number of recent moves by big health insurers to find merger partners,” Dana Mattioli and Liz Hoffman...
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Republican legislators question cabinet’s figures on managed-care payments and cost projections for Medicaid expansion
Audrey Haynes (cn|2 image) “When Audrey Haynes sat down before the legislature’s Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee Wednesday, she expected the data she brought would persuade lawmakers that Kentucky’s expansion...
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Bevin says he will end all Obamacare programs in Ky., including Medicaid expansion that has added more than 400,000 to rolls
Matt Bevin, the Republican nominee for governor, has made clear that if elected he would end the Medicaid expansion that has provided free health coverage for more than 400,000 poor...
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Citing costs, Bevin has said he would shut down Kynect; actually, insurance companies pay for it; Medicaid is another matter
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The governor’s race between Democrat Jack Conway and Republican Matt Bevin will spotlight the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an...
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Most insured through Kynect will pay more in 2016; Kentucky Health Cooperative seeks 25 percent increase
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal health law requires that insurers planning to significantly increase premiums for policies on a health-insurance exchange to submit their rates by June...