Tag: insurance exchange
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30% of uninsured Kentuckians still don’t know about Kynect health-insurance exchange despite heavy advertising, poll finds
By Melissa Landon and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kynect, Kentucky’s online marketplace for health insurance, launched on Oct. 1 under the federal health-reform law. In a poll taken from...
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State insurance exchange officials say they’re not worried about relatively low share of people 18-34 signing up for health plans
By Melissa Landon Kentucky Health News Two and a half months before the initial enrollment period ends, only 21.6 percent of Kentuckians who have signed up for a health plan...
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Poll in fall found more Kentuckians reporting health coverage through employers, fewer saying they’re on public insurance
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News More Kentuckians had health insurance through their employer last year than the year before, and fewer were on public insurance, according to a statewide...
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Ky. Obamacare enrollments surpass 100,000; Medicaid down to 74%; state publishing updated county-by-county enrollment data
As the 100,000th Kentuckian enrolled in health insurance under the federal health reform law, the state started releasing county-by county tabulations of people the state’s health benefit exchange had enrolled...
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Statewide farm editor identifies self-employed workers’ problems with Obamacare, and hers with Congress
Farmers and other self-employed people may have special trouble maneuvering through the process of obtaining health insurance on the state exchange, writes Sharon Burton, editor and publisher of The Farmer’s...
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McConnell shares excerpts from letters he received from Kentuckians who are frustrated by health-reform law
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Continuing his attack on Obamacare, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor last week to read excerpts from letters he received from...
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Newspaper in Alabama, a similar state in many ways, gives its readers a look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare
The latest newspaper to look at Kentucky’s embrace of Obamacare is in Alabama, a state that offers almost a mirror image of Kentucky: another Southern state with a very high...
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Kentucky’s health-insurance exchange has covered a greater share of population than any other state-based exchange
Kentucky has registered more people for Medicaid and private health insurance than any other state with its own exchange created under the federal health-reform law, Christine Vestal reports for Stateline,...
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Free clinics are wary of how health reform will affect them
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Free health clinics for the uninsured face an uncertain future as the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act is implemented. Kentucky has more...
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Beshear says other governors will follow his lead on Medicaid
Associated Press file photo Gov. Steve Beshear says states that have not expanded the Medicaid program under the federal health-reform law, as he did, will do so in the next...