Tag: health reform
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Beshear announces rates in health-insurance exchange, says Kentuckians will like them, especially the federal ‘discounts’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Tossing out the first examples of what Kentuckians will pay for required health coverage through the state health insurance exchange that opens Oct. 1,...
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Courier-Journal runs comprehensive list of questions and answers about health insurance exchange set to open Oct. 1
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309070050
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Webinar Tuesday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time will look at rates and plan offerings in state health-insurance exchanges
The second in a series of webinars for journalists covering the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be held Tuesday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. ET. This one will...
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State health-insurance exchange plans to make smokers pay 40 percent more for coverage; varied interests, observers object
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have touted its goal to provide health insurance to all Americans without discrimination, such as...
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Webinars to be held Thursday, Sept. 12, for small businesses to help them plan for implementation of the Affordable Care Act
What will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mean for Kentucky’s small businesses? A webinar Thursday, Sept. 12 is designed to address such questions about the federal health-care reform...
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Are health insurers trying to trick individual policyholders into renewing before they can shop on new insurance exchange?
UPDATE, Sept. 25: The state has fined Humana $10 per letter, or $65,430, for sending the letters, Chris Kenning of The Courier-Journal reports. State officials say Humana Inc. is misleading...
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Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange
A judge upheld Gov. Steve Beshear’s decisions to expand Medicaid and set up the state’s health-insurance exchange under federal health reform, but his adversaries say they will continue to fight...
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Just-released figures show uninsured by county, age, income
People in Logan, Magoffin, Casey, Todd, Menifee, Adair, Monroe, Edmonson and McCreary counties are more likely to lack health insurance than residents of other Kentucky counties, according to the data...
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Kentucky nursing homes rank 40th in the nation in new survey; reformers ask governor to create special task force for action
Kentucky got a D grade and a rank of 40th among the states in a new national survey of nursing-home care, and reform advocates are calling on Gov. Steve Beshear...
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State insurance exchange call center gets 422 calls in first week; Herald-Leader story lists common questions and answers
http://www.kentucky.com/2013/08/22/2780783/ky-call-center-shares-answers.html