Tag: health reform
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Here are the basics of buying health insurance on the state exchange that opens Tuesday
On Tuesday, Americans can begin buying health insurance through state exchanges created by federal health reform. Journalists have spent months trying to understand the reform law in an attempt to...
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Delaying individual mandate, as GOP now proposes, would wreck exchanges and Obamacare, Democratic aide warns; McConnell says Republicans can’t get Democratic votes they need in Senate
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-reform law and its requirement for individuals to...
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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling opponents of Obamacare to “Get over it.” Now, as...
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Ky. Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, could help hold down rates and reshape the health-care system
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health insurance — a cooperative that is...
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Watch out for specious claims about health-reform law in highly politicized debate; Sen. Paul among those found off base
The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday’s opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under the federal health reform law. “Obamacare” has been politicized...
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Weekly newspaper in Jessamine County localizes the changes coming to health insurance and health care
The Jessamine Journal did a story this week that every Kentucky newspaper can do, spotlighting the local impacts of Medicaid expansion under federal health reform and federal tax credits for...
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Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the recession, Kentucky poverty rates increased and...
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Obamacare recruiters encounter resistance in rural Kentucky
Promoters of the new health-insurance system being created under the federal health-reform law are running into resistance in rural Kentucky, where “tend to be less connected to the Internet and...
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State picks managed-care outfits for expanded Medicaid
The state awarded contracts Friday to Humana Inc., Passport Health Plan and Wellpoint subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to manage the health care of Kentuckians who will become eligible for Medicaid when...
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McConnell calls for one-year delay in reform law’s key requirement, that Americans buy health insurance
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is calling for a one-year delay in the requirement for almost all Americans to buy health insurance, followed by repeal of the...