Tag: health reform
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Community health centers get federal grants to hire employees to help you shop for health insurance coverage
Kentucky’s online health insurance exchange, Kynect, opens Oct. 1, 2013, and most Kentuckians must have health insurance by January of next year or face tax penalties having it. To help you get...
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AMA president, a Kentuckian, says doctors have a duty to make sure patients know about new health-insurance exchanges
Despite the mixed messages from many physicians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Dr. Arvis Hoven, an internal-medicine and infectious-disease specialist in Lexington and the new president of...
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New York Times starts series that will study Affordable Care Act’s implementation and impact in Louisville area
It’s the calm before the health-care storm, and amid the uncertainty of how the health-care reform law will be implemented, health-care conditions in Louisville, Ky., seem to make it a...
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As Medicaid eligibility expands in Kentucky, so will subsidy of undocumented immigrants’ health care
As Washington lawmakers struggle to find consensus on immigration reform, U.S. taxpayers continue to shell out money to subsidize health care for illegal, undocumented immigrants. Those expenses will probably increase,...
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Ky. is already short of doctors, dentists; how will its health-care system handle expansion of Medicaid and private insurance?
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News In the wake of Gov. Steve Beshear’s recent decision to expand Medicaid under federal health reform, there is concern that Kentucky’s...
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Beshear announces launch of Kynect, the state’s new online shop for health insurance; open enrollment starts Oct. 1
Gov. Steve Beshear has announced the launch of Kentucky’s Healthcare Connection, which is referred to as Kynect and is Kentucky’s one-stop onlineshop for the state’s new health insurance exchange. Beginning...
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Medicaid expansion could change Kentucky’s course, big time
NEWS ANALYSIS By Al Cross Kentucky Health News “Today we change the course of Kentucky’s history.” It is not often that a public official can say such a thing with...
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Medicaid expansion would have ‘a big health impact,’ and critical-access hospitals need to change, rural-health expert says
Expansion of the Medicaid program under federal health-care reform would have a major beneficial impact on the health of Kentucky, a doctor who ran the state and national rural-health agencies...
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Half-day seminars on health reform’s impact on business Wed. and Thur.; journalists invited
Experts on the impact of federal health-care reform on business will give advice to Kentucky companies at half-day seminars in Lexington and Louisville on Wednesday and Thursday of this week....
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Beshear says he will decide in four to five weeks, or July 1 at the latest, whether or not to expand Medicaid
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News This story has been updated. Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday that he will decide within the next four to five weeks, or maybe by...