Tag: health reform
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Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piece he and the Democratic governors of Connecticut and...
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Most Kentucky hospitals will pay Medicare penalties under health reform, one the country’s largest; look them up here
More Kentucky hospitals are receiving penalties than bonuses in the second year of Medicare’s quality incentive programs, one of the federal health reform law’s changes designed to create financial rewards...
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Obama says health policies that don’t comply with reforms can be renewed for another year; state will let insurance firms decide
People with insurance policies that don’t measure up to the federal health-reform law will be able to renew them for another year, President Obama announced today in an effort to...
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Pike County officials urge newly eligible residents to sign up for health insurance before Dec. 15
A call to action. That’s what Pike County officials are calling their efforts to encourage citizens to sign up for health care insurance, as called for by the Patient Protection...
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FactCheck.org finds little support for Sen. Rand Paul’s claim that Medicaid expansion will ‘bankrupt’ Kentucky hospitals
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on ABC‘s “This Week” Sunday, Nov. 3 that the federal health-reform law may “bankrupt” rural Kentucky hospitals “by overwhelming them with Medicaid patients.” However, health-care...
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Obamacare’s employer mandate poses challenges for schools
While Kentucky public-school employees get their health insurance through the state’s self-funded program and don’t have to worry too much about how federal health reform may affect them, their employers...
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280,000 Kentuckians, almost all those with individual and small-group insurance policies, will have to change under Obamacare
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies, which are being discontinued because they don’t comply with the Patient Protection and...
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Latest New York Times look at Obamacare in Kentucky examines highs and lows of enrollees and people helping them
Navigator Kelli Cauley helps an applicant. (Luke Sharrett, NYT) While many states have suffered through complications in signing up uninsured people for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, Kentucky has...
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Appalachian Ky. newspapers emphasized political voices in coverage of Obamacare in 2 months before exchange opened
Newspaper readers in Appalachian Kentucky rarely had the opportunity to read factual, impartial information about health-care reform in the two months before the new health-insurance system opened for enrollment. That...
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15 to 25% of uninsured Kentuckians may be eligible for free, non-Medicaid coverage, but watch those out-of-pocket costs
Millions of Americans who don’t quite qualify for Medicaid could still get free health insurance through federal subsidies, but this free coverage hasn’t gotten much attention, since most of the...