Tag: health insurance
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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...
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New survey shows dramatic increase in employer-sponsored health insurance rates
The average cost of employer-sponsored health insurance has increased 9 percent for family coverage and 8 percent for individual coverage since last year, a new study by the Kaiser Family...
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Lexington council turns to wellness center to cut insurance costs
Following a national trend to improve employee health so companies can cut health-insurance costs, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council agreed Tuesday to set up a wellness center for city employees....
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A million more young adults have health coverage; law cited
One million more young adults ages 19 to 25 had health insurance in the first quarter of 2011 than in the same period a year ago, data from the National Health...
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Feds give Ky. $3 million to hold health insurers accountable
Kentucky will receive more than $3.2 million in federal grants to help state officials track health-insurance premium increases and make insurers more accountable. The funds are part of guidelines set...
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Last year, 17.4 percent of Kentuckians lived in poverty and 17.5 percent did not have health insurance
More than one in six Kentuckians lived in poverty last year and almost exactly the same number didn’t have health insurance, preliminary U.S. Census numbers show. The state’s poverty rate was 17.4...