Tag: health reform
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Health Reform Source website answers questions about law
In time for the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the federal health-reform law, the Kaiser Family Foundation is advertising its Health Reform Source website, which offers comprehensive resources concerning...
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Most Kentuckians say they don’t understand health-reform law
Though parts of the new national health-care law have started to take effect, three out of four Kentucky adults say they don’t understand how the new policies will affect them,...
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Kentucky companies adjust to new federal rules requiring accommodations for breast-feeding mothers
Rules in the federal health-care refom law are resulting in Kentucky companies making room and time for mothers breast-feeding their children, the Lexington Herald-Leader‘s Mary Meehan reports. Louisville Metro Government...
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Annual Economic Report from UK business school examines impact of health-care reform, state of oral health in Kentucky
The federal health-reform law could have a big impact on Kentucky’s uninsured population, and Kentuckians’ oral health is improving but still at risk. Those are two major health findings in...
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McConnell’s health care repeal fails on party-line vote
The Senate voted along strictly partisan lines tonight not to repeal the health-care reform law of 2010, but Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky vowed to keep trying. All 50...
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Effect of new health care law on premiums debatable
Neither President Barack Obama nor Republicans who oppose him are entirely accurate about whether or not the new health care law will lower premiums. Obama insists it will, Republicans say...
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McConnell says Senate will vote on repeal of health reform law
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that the Senate would somehow vote on whether or not to repeal the health-reform law. McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Majority Leader Harry...
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Essay contest for grad/undergrad students, topic: ‘Obamacare’
KaiserEdu.org is hosting its annual essay contest, with this year’s essay topic President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the U.S. House voted yesterday to repeal. The competition...
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Health reform will be difficult to implement, as faceoff between insurers and state official showed
Huffington Post contributor Don McNay, right, of Richmond, writes that states will adopt health-care reform “kicking and screaming,” as shown by the Kentucky insurance commissioner’s recent face-off with insurance companies over children’s...