Tag: health reform
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Physician assistants and some doctors urge lawmakers to pass bill that could ease provider shortage in rural Kentucky
Doctors and more than 150 physician-assistant students urged lawmakers Tuesday to pass a bill they stated involves dropping only one requirement in the law and could ease a physician shortage in...
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Kasich of Ohio is fifth Republican governor to accept Medicaid expansion; he and others cite need to protect rural hospitals, poor
Several Republican governors have decided to expand Medicaid under federal health-care reform, saying their conservative principles were outweighed by a need to protect their state’s rural hospitals and low-income people. Yesterday, the...
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Health reform will let insurers charge smokers up to 50 percent higher premiums, which is likely to have a big impact in Kentucky
“Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance” because the health-care reform law will let health-insurance companies charge smokers as much as 50 percent more starting next year...
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Health reform drives hospital mergers and affiliations, and makes clinical collaborations more important
Is your community’s hospital one of the many rural hospitals considering sale, merger or affiliation with a larger hospital or group of hospitals, all options that are becoming more common,...
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Chart shows how to get coverage under federal health reform
The core of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is helping people get health insurance, beginning next year. That will be relatively simple for some people, but complicated for...
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Feds tell states it’s all or nothing on Medicaid expansion; Washington Post map shows Ky. is only state ‘leaning’ toward it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above...
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American Lung Association calls state’s tobacco-cessation benefit inadequate now that Medicaid is under managed care
Kentucky added a robust tobacco cessation benefit to its Medicaid program, only to lose much of it in 2011 by putting the program under managed care by insurance companies, the American...
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Health care is strong second to economy among concerns of Ky. registered voters; candidates compared on handling of issues
Health care ranks high among the concerns of Kentucky voters, according to the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll taken for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. The poll, taken Sept. 20...
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Association of Health Care Journalists’ reporting fellowship application deadline is Nov. 9
The Association of Health Care Journalists is offering fellowships for reporting on health care performance to journalists who wish to pursue a significant year-long reporting project related to the U.S....
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Obamacare is unpopular in nine swing states, but not when the law is described without that label
Party labels affect what rural voters think about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the latest National Rural Assembly and Center for Rural Strategies poll of rural...