Tag: health insurance
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State won’t estimate cost of greater-than-expected Medicaid expansion for ‘a few additional months’ – after Nov. election
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Republican-controlled state Senate’s budget committee chair wants to know how much Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of the Medicaid program will cost, since...
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Expert says Ky. is one of 13 states where people in individual insurance market are better off than before reform law
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most of the focus on Obamacare has been on people who are no longer uninsured, or those who had to get...
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Beshear cites examples of health reform’s benefits, while McConnell keeps up criticism, at Farm Bureau’s ham breakfast
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell squared off on health-care reform for the second straight year at the Kentucky Farm...
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Grimes and McConnell lay out differences on health reform
By Al Cross and Megan Ingros Kentucky Health News U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell kept attacking federal health-care reform and challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes gave her strongest defense of it yet...
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Women leading Ky. Health: With less than 16 months left, Haynes tries to ‘bake in’ health reform, managed care, more
This is the last in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. By...
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Women leading Kentucky health: State health commissioner sees ‘stars aligned’ for Kentucky to finally get healthier
Health Commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson This is the third in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection...
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Women Leading Kentucky Health: Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark is key player in making health-reform law work
This is the second in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and...
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Poll: Kynect considered a success, but voters haven’t embraced it, and they still disapprove of the Affordable Care Act
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new poll again indicates that Kentuckians marginally approve of the state health-insurance exchange created under the federal health-reform law, but clearly disapprove of...
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Women Leading Ky. Health: Exchange Director Carrie Banahan says getting people health insurance is highlight of her career
This is the first in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and...
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Medicaid expansion has dramatically reduced share of uninsured in most counties; some legislators worry about future cost
The expansion of Medicaid under federal health reform has greatly reduced the number of Kentuckians without health insurance, but state legislators are wary of its future cost. Medicaid Commissioner Lawrence...