Tag: health insurance
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Obamacare navigator program in Georgia, overseen by former UK Extension official, is ended by state legislature
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed into law two bills aimed at thwarting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One will prevent the...
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McConnell presses Democratic foe Grimes to say how she feels about Obamacare, but won’t bite on questions about Kynect
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News At his first press conference after winning the Republican nomination for a sixth term, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell pressed Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes...
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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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Feds investigating possibility that Humana overbilled taxpayers for Medicare Advantage; firm says it reported information
Louisville-based “Humana Inc. faces multiple federal investigations into allegations that it overbilled the government for treating elderly patients enrolled in its Medicare Advantage plans, court records reveal.” So reports Fred...
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Less than 60% of Kentuckians say they visited a dentist in the past year, ranking the state 43rd in the nation
Kentucky ranked 43rd among the 50 states in percentage of people who told pollsters that they had visited a dentist in the past 12 months. The rankings in the annual...
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In Floyd County, opinions about health care reform depend on whom you ask, and in some cases they are surprising
At the Eula Hall Health Center in Grethel, nurse Stephanie Clark takes vitals of Mary Murphy, 54, whose leg blood clot wasn’t treated for 15 years because she couldn’t afford...
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Insurance companies will be allowed to add one more year to policies that don’t comply with reforms; decisions due May 5
Kentucky’s health insurance companies may extend through Oct. 1, 2016, individual and small-group policies that don’t comply with federal health reform, the state Department of Insurance announced Friday. This means...
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Poll: Kentuckians still oppose Obamacare, but favor fixes, not repeal, and think state insurance exchange works well
Most Kentuckians still oppose the federal health-reform law, but think it should be changed rather than repealed, and most think the state health-insurance exchange created under the law is working...
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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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FactCheck.org takes apart attacks on Obamacare
FactCheck.org is a non-profit, non-partisan center in the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It blows the whistle on misleading advertising and other statements of political figures. The center...