Tag: insurance exchange
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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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Employers welcome delay in coverage mandate, but individual mandate remains and many uninsured people are unaware of it
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration’s decision to delay, for a year, the health-reform law’s mandate that employers of more than 50 workers offer them coverage could...
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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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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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Baucus sees a health-reform ‘train wreck,’ fearing insurance exchanges won’t be ready
Max Baucus (J. Scott Applewhite, AP) Senator Max Baucus, who as Senate Finance Committee chair helped write the health-care reform law, has become the highest-ranking Democrat to publicly voice concerns...
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Lawsuit alleges state health insurance exchange is unauthorized
Tea Party activist David Adams filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Gov. Steve Beshear’s legal authority to create Kentucky’s health insurance exchange without approval from the General Assembly. The governor created...
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Confused or concerned about the impact of health reform on Kentucky businesses? There’s a seminar for that.
To address possible confusion or concern of business people and the public about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” health-care reform experts will address its impact on...
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Newly formed Kentucky Health Cooperative gets OK to offer plans in state’s health insurance exchange
The new Kentucky Health Cooperative‘s health-insurance plans have received approval from the state Department of Insurance and will be available on Kentucky’s insurance exchange market when it opens in October....
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Essential-benefits rule expands mental-health and substance-abuse coverage; Ky. needs more facilities to treat newly eligible
The Department of Health and Human Services has defined the 10 “essential health benefits” insurance plans must provide, and it included benefits for mental health and treatment of substance-abuse disorders.. Nearly...
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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...