Tag: health insurance
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Newspaper in Alabama, a similar state in many ways, gives its readers a look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare
The latest newspaper to look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare is in Alabama, a state that offers almost a mirror image of Kentucky: another Southern state with a very high...
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Kentucky’s health-insurance exchange has covered a greater share of population than any other state-based exchange
Kentucky has registered more people for Medicaid and private health insurance than any other state with its own exchange created under the federal health-reform law, Christine Vestal reports for Stateline,...
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Free clinics are wary of how health reform will affect them
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Free health clinics for the uninsured face an uncertain future as the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act is implemented. Kentucky has more...
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Beshear says other governors will follow his lead on Medicaid
Associated Press file photo Gov. Steve Beshear says states that have not expanded the Medicaid program under the federal health-reform law, as he did, will do so in the next...
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Anthem says Kynect has delivered inaccurate enrollment forms, but is nevertheless a model for insurance exchanges
Some health-insurance companies say Kentucky’s Kynect exchange for acquiring coverage is giving them inaccurate or incomplete enrollment forms, and that is also a problem in other state-operated exchanges, Kyle Cheney...
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Beshear says Ky. is ‘gold standard’ for implementing Obamacare, trades shots with McConnell in Washington
“Kentucky has become the gold standard when it comes to implementing the Affordable Care Act, and I’m very proud of that,” Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday morning at a press...
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Obama, fighting to regain traction, calls out McConnell on health care; Kentucky senator replies, and president does it again
White House file photo President Obama called out U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell two days in a row in speeches defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an example...
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Websites that misled Kentuckians seeking health insurance are taken down, blocked or corrected
Three websites that were misleading Kentuckians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and about the state’s health-insurance exchange have either been taken down, corrected or blocked by the...
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Beshear’s office says he is considering ‘various ideas’ for financing Ky. insurance exchange, not just a 1% fee on policies
“Gov. Steve Beshear’s administration is reconsidering how to pay for the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange amid increased criticism from some Republicans in the legislature and a court case challenging a...
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Beshear says Medicaid plan will transform Ky. in a generation; acknowledges it was easier because he wouldn’t face voters
In a generation, Kentucky will be a very different state because the federal health-reform law and expansion of Medicaid has made health insurance available to all residents of the state,...