Tag: insurance exchange

Obamacare seems to be no plus for Kentucky Democrats, perhaps mainly because of the word’s first three syllables

Though the federal health-reform law has helped cover more than half a million Kentuckians and cut the state’s uninsured population by half, “there is little evidence it will help” Kentucky...

By Al Cross September 20, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Expert says Ky. is one of 13 states where people in individual insurance market are better off than before reform law

By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most of the focus on Obamacare has been on people who are no longer uninsured, or those who had to get...

By molly_burchett September 14, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Beshear cites examples of health reform’s benefits, while McConnell keeps up criticism, at Farm Bureau’s ham breakfast

By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell squared off on health-care reform for the second straight year at the Kentucky Farm...

By Al Cross August 25, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Grimes and McConnell lay out differences on health reform

By Al Cross and Megan Ingros Kentucky Health News U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell kept attacking federal health-care reform and challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes gave her strongest defense of it yet...

By Al Cross August 21, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Women leading Ky. Health: With less than 16 months left, Haynes tries to ‘bake in’ health reform, managed care, more

This is the last in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. By...

By Al Cross August 16, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Women Leading Kentucky Health: Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark is key player in making health-reform law work

This is the second in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and...

By Al Cross August 13, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Poll: Kynect considered a success, but voters haven’t embraced it, and they still disapprove of the Affordable Care Act

By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new poll again indicates that Kentuckians marginally approve of the state health-insurance exchange created under the federal health-reform law, but clearly disapprove of...

By Al Cross August 13, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Women Leading Ky. Health: Exchange Director Carrie Banahan says getting people health insurance is highlight of her career

This is the first in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state’s embrace of the Patient Protection and...

By Al Cross August 11, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Hospitals say too many of the newly insured are using emergency rooms for primary care; state says it’s working on the problem

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More people with health insurance, a shortage of primary-care physicians and a steep learning curve for the newly insured all add up to more...

By Melissa Patrick August 1, 2014 YOUR HEALTH
Beshear says that even if Republicans take over, they won’t be willing or able to reverse his Medicaid expansion

By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear may be succeeded by a Republican next year, and the state legislature may even sooner be controlled by Republicans who...

By Al Cross July 23, 2014 YOUR HEALTH

Tag: insurance exchange

Obamacare seems to be no plus for Kentucky Democrats, perhaps mainly because of the word’s first three syllables

Expert says Ky. is one of 13 states where people in individual insurance market are better off than before reform law

Beshear cites examples of health reform’s benefits, while McConnell keeps up criticism, at Farm Bureau’s ham breakfast

Grimes and McConnell lay out differences on health reform

Women leading Ky. Health: With less than 16 months left, Haynes tries to ‘bake in’ health reform, managed care, more

Women Leading Kentucky Health: Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark is key player in making health-reform law work

Poll: Kynect considered a success, but voters haven’t embraced it, and they still disapprove of the Affordable Care Act

Women Leading Ky. Health: Exchange Director Carrie Banahan says getting people health insurance is highlight of her career

Hospitals say too many of the newly insured are using emergency rooms for primary care; state says it’s working on the problem

Beshear says that even if Republicans take over, they won’t be willing or able to reverse his Medicaid expansion