Tag: health insurance
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Most Medicaid recipients can switch their managed care company from now through Oct. 19
Medicaid recipients in 104 counties who want to change who provides their managed care will have an opportunity to do so during open enrollment now through Oct. 19. Letters are...
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Legislative committee delays vote on state insurance exchange, though the move is only symbolic
Kentucky legislators have made another symbolic move against creating a health insurance exchange, with the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare delaying a vote on its creation until next...
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About 290,000 more Kentuckians would be eligible for Medicaid if state expands program, Urban Institute study finds
About 289,000 more people in Kentucky would be able to get health insurance if the state opts to expand its Medicaid program up to 138 percent of the federal poverty...
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Papa John’s CEO says new health law will raise price of pizza by 11 to 14 cents; Courier-Journal says that’s worth it
Papa John’s found and CEO John Schnatter. Courier-Journal photo Papa John‘s CEO John Schnatter did more than put the Affordable Care Act under the microscope this week, he threw it...
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Next phase of health reform: New and renewed insurance policies will have to cover birth control, other preventive care for women
Even though the decision was widely expected, as part of health care reform, the news is still what Julie Rovner of National Public Radio termed “a pretty big deal.” Earlier...
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Research suggests dental therapists could provide care to Medicaid-eligible kids at terrific savings
The recent revitalization of the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition was a reminder that our state ranks 49th in dental health, behind only West Virginia. So was the news then Tuesday...
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What it’s like to lack health insurance, and how health reform is changing that: It’s a story for every county, with local data
The Kentucky Standard‘s Randy Patrick deftly shows how the federal health-care reform law is having an effect at the individual level by telling the story of Bonnie Varnell, a Nelson...
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New health law and aging baby boomers’ anticipated strain on the system is about to make chronic doctor shortage worse
Kentucky’s persistent physician shortage is hardly new. Almost a century ago, the Frontier Nursing Service came to Hyden on the presumption that doctors wouldn’t. A report from the Health Resources...
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State insurance exchanges are good for farmers and other rural residents, farmers union president writes
Farmers and rural Americans have much to gain from state health-insurance exchanges under federal health reform, since “Rural residents often have the hardest time getting health insurance,” the president of the Wisconsin...
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CBO estimates court ruling will mean 3 million fewer people than predicted will get insurance, saving federal government $84 billion
The Congressional Budget Office estimates 3 million fewer people will get health insurance than expected before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The...