Tag: health insurance
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Flexibility Act would give states more Medicaid authority, but it could mean that fewer children would have health coverage
MEDICAID PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL STATE SPENDING Children’s advocates are concerned the proposed State Flexibility Act would result in more children living without health insurance in Kentucky. The act “would repeal...
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Employers will have to pay 8 percent more for employee health insurance next year
“Employers will likely face health-care cost increases of 8.5 percent in 2012, but they’ll mitigate that burden by pushing more costs onto employees and making other changes to benefits,” reports...
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Free clinic helps care for poor workers in horse racing industry
People who don’t have health insurance but who work at Churchill Downs and elsewhere in the horse racing industry can get free care, thanks to the Kentucky Racing Health Services...
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More Kentuckians had health insurance in 2010, survey finds
Fewer Kentuckians lacked health insurance in 2010, the Kentucky Health Issues Poll has found. About one in four Kentuckians ages 18 to 64 were uninsured last year, much the same as in...
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Parents’ insurance can now cover children up to age 26
Following the lead of the federal health-care law, Kentucky employers can now extend health coverage to their employees’ adult children. The employees will not be subject to state taxes if...
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Maine gets health-reform exemption that Kentucky also wants
Maine has been granted an exemption that Kentucky is also seeking — one that will exclude it from being subject to the health reform’s medical-care ratio rules. The ratio requirement...
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Judge issues permanent injunction barring Medi-Share, a Christian health-coverage plan, from operating in Kentucky
After a legal battle that lasted almost nine years, the Christian health-coverage plan Medi-Share will be prohibited from operating in Kentucky, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate decided today. The state...
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Most Kentuckians say they don’t understand health-reform law
Though parts of the new national health-care law have started to take effect, three out of four Kentucky adults say they don’t understand how the new policies will affect them,...
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Effect of new health care law on premiums debatable
Neither President Barack Obama nor Republicans who oppose him are entirely accurate about whether or not the new health care law will lower premiums. Obama insists it will, Republicans say...
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McConnell says Senate will vote on repeal of health reform law
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-reform law. McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Majority Leader Harry...