Tag: health insurance
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Uninsured young adults may qualify for high-deductible health coverage for $50 or less per month on state exchanges
Almost half of single young adults who are uninsured may qualify for coverage for $50 or less per month under federal health reform, according to a report from the U.S. Department of...
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Scammers taking advantage of new health-insurance system
Scammers are using the new health-insurance system “as an opportunity to try to collect consumers’ personal information or to make false claims,” Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway...
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A Ky. guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Few laws have generated as much confusion, opposition or news coverage as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Despite the flood of news...
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Kentucky’s Obamacare website’s success resulted from careful and early testing, unlike the federal website, writers say
While Kynect, Kentucky’s online health insurance marketplace, is being hailed as the country’s best Obamacare website, the federal government’s $634 million Healthcare.gov website continues to marred by technological glitches and bad...
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Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky’s online health insurance exchange, KYnect, Nov. 7 at the West Kentucky Community and...
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Obamacare will work, Beshear promises on ‘Meet the Press’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing Kentucky examples, Gov. Steve Beshear promised a national audience on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning that the federal health-reform law will work, despite...
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GOP claim that Obamacare will hike Kentuckians’ premiums 34 percent is ‘mostly false,’ Herald-Leader says in an analysis
A Republican Party claim that Obamacare will raise Kentuckians’ health-insurance premiums 34 percent is mostly false, the Lexington Herald-Leader said in a news analysis Saturday. The National Republican Senatorial Committee...
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Shortages of insurance providers and hospitals lead to higher insurance premiums under Obamacare in rural areas
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was designed to make it easier for uninsured Americans to buy insurance at an affordable rate. But the exact opposite is happening in...
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Free webcast for journalists TODAY at 2 p.m. ET will explore rural use of health-insurance exchanges
If you lack health insurance, you’re more likely to live in a rural area. Put another way, if you’re rural, you’re more likely to lack health insurance. Nearly one in...
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Nationwide, eyes on are Ky.’s implementation and debate about Obamacare, and thousands of Kentuckians are signing up for it
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The good, the bad and the ugly about health reform in Kentucky are showing up on national news as the state’s two Republican senators...