Tag: health reform
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Shopping for health insurance is hard; understanding it is even harder, even for some who already have it, research shows
As Kentucky and the nation settle into the second phase of the Obamacare rollout, leading up to the March 31 deadline to enroll in exchange health-insurance plans for 2014, Sarah...
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Ky. Obamacare enrollments surpass 100,000; Medicaid down to 74%; state publishing updated county-by-county enrollment data
As the 100,000th Kentuckian enrolled in health insurance under the federal health reform law, the state started releasing county-by county tabulations of people the state’s health benefit exchange had enrolled...
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Feds allow people whose health plans were canceled, and haven’t gotten a new one, to keep old one or get catastrophic plan
If you were among the 280,000 or so Kentuckians whose health plan didn’t meet the requirements of the federal health-reform law, and you haven’t enrolled in a qualified plan, you...
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Survey finds that 93 percent of hospital executives think Obamacare will improve systems and save costs
While there has been much grumbling about federal health reform, at least one very affected group of people think it’s a great idea. A survey by Health Affairs found that...
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Health reform should make Medicaid and Medicare more interested in preventing chronic diseases in young, expert says
Dr. Wayne Myers While some rural areas may not have enough doctors (or those who accept Medicaid patients) to treat new patients generated by federal health reform, the key to...
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As Obamacare spreads in Kentucky, the state remains conflicted about it and other forms of government help
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Even as Obamacare coverage spreads in Kentucky, more widely than in almost any other state, the commonwealth remains conflicted about it and other forms...
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Newspaper in Alabama, a similar state in many ways, gives its readers a look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare
The latest newspaper to look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare is in Alabama, a state that offers almost a mirror image of Kentucky: another Southern state with a very high...
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Kentucky’s health-insurance exchange has covered a greater share of population than any other state-based exchange
Kentucky has registered more people for Medicaid and private health insurance than any other state with its own exchange created under the federal health-reform law, Christine Vestal reports for Stateline,...
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Beshear says other governors will follow his lead on Medicaid
Associated Press file photo Gov. Steve Beshear says states that have not expanded the Medicaid program under the federal health-reform law, as he did, will do so in the next...
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Anthem says Kynect has delivered inaccurate enrollment forms, but is nevertheless a model for insurance exchanges
Some health-insurance companies say Kentucky’s Kynect exchange for acquiring coverage is giving them inaccurate or incomplete enrollment forms, and that is also a problem in other state-operated exchanges, Kyle Cheney...