Tag: health reform
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Calorie counts on your Coke and Pepsi machines coming in 2013
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, for starters, will start displaying calorie counts on vending machines in an effort to encourage consumers to make lower-calorie choices, starting in...
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Health reform expected to hurt recruitment of rural doctors
Recruiting doctors to rural hospitals will get harder in the next few years as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act reaches full implementation and the demand for healthcare services...
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Health reform’s exchange won’t attract many new insurers to Ky. because it’s a small, sickly state, former Medicaid boss says
Kentucky is unlikely to attract many new insurance companies when it starts its Health Benefits Exchange a year from now, a former state Medicaid commissioner told Dawn Marie Yankeelov for...
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Federal official and expert on integrating physical and behavioral health services will speak in Louisville Wednesday morning
The integration of physical health and behavioral health services, one of the hottest topics in health care, will be the topic of a Health Enterprises Network forum in Louisville Wednesday,...
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Tenn. study suggests rural residents have as much access to care as anyone, if they’re insured and don’t mind the drive
A health-care study in Tennessee, which started with the premise that people in rural areas have less access to care than urban dwellers, ended with a rather surprising conclusion: They...
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After two days with doctors at work, Herald-Leader columnist wonders about patients and future of health-care system
Tom Eblen Tom Eblen, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s local columnist and former editor, spent two days shadowing doctors last week and lived to tell about it. Part of the Lexington Medical Society’s...
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Republicans reject governor’s executive order creating health benefits exchange; move is only symbolic for now
Republican legislators voted yesterday against Gov. Steve Beshear’s executive order creating the Kentucky Health Benefits Exchange, required by federal health reform. Sen. David Givens of Greensburg offered a motion to...
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Governor names board to guide creation of insurance exchange
Gov. Steve Beshear today appointed the board to make recommendations for the state health-insurance marketplace required by federal health reform. The Health Benefit Exchange Advisory Board, originally planned to include 11...
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Former health secretary is CEO of Kentucky Health Cooperative, a new type of insurance firm created by health reform
Former health and family services secretary Janie Miller, who resigned in February, has become chief executive of the Kentucky Health Cooperative, a new type of health-insurance organization established by the...
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Video explains health reform and new insurance coverage
The folks at Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has done us all a tremendous favor: They’ve made health reform law kinda easy. And kinda brief. In their new video “Health Reform...