Tag: health insurance
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Bill amendment could make dental, vision care more expensive
A last-minute amendment to a bill intended to limit when insurance companies could terminate policies may end up costing Kentuckians more out-of-pocket dental and vision expenses, Courier-Journal political writer Joseph...
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Will birth-control mandate cost more or less? Yet to be seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the...
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Kentucky receives $57.9 million to set up insurance exchange
Kentucky received $57.9 million Wednesday to help set up a health insurance exchange or marketplace — though lawmakers have made no move to make that happen. Kentucky is one of...
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Health reform means millions more will be covered and more illness will be prevented, federal health official says at UK
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News What will the healthvcare system look like in 2020? Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Howard Koh told a packed house in Lexington Monday that...
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Kentucky and most other states continue to delay action on health-insurance exchanges, despite Jan. 1, 2013 deadline
Though states must be able to prove whether or not they’re ready to run a state insurance exchange by Jan. 1, 2013, many, including Kentucky, have not made any moves...
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Smokers should pay more for health insurance, but obese should not, national poll finds
Nearly 60 percent of people in October’s Thomson Reuters–NPR Health Poll said smokers should pay more for their health insurance than those who don’t smoke, but 69 percent said “no”...
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Hike in health insurance premiums due to rising health costs, not reform law, FactCheck.org concludes
Health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans shot up by 9 percent from 2010 to 2011, but the bulk of the hike is due to the increase in health care...
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Haven’t quit smoking, lost weight? Pay more for health insurance, more companies say
In an effort to keep health-care costs down, companies across the country, including Walmart, are opting to charge workers who smoke or are obese higher premiums than their more healthy...
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Conway supports, P’Pool opposes meds-for-meth law; Conway defends decsion not to join lawsuits about federal health reform
In a debate where most of the sparks flew over often-specious questions about conflicts of interest, one of the biggest substantive disagreements between the candidates for attorney general Monday night...
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Health exchange could cost up to $34 million in Ohio; Kentucky still biding its time — until after the election?
As 27 states, including Kentucky, bide their time in setting up a health care exchange — a key component of the federal health-reform law — Ohio officials have said setting...