Tag: Medicaid
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Paducah Sun editorial criticizing Medicaid expansion was off base; Beshear sends the newspaper a response
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Paducah Sun relied on incomplete and inaccurate information for an editorial Thursday that criticized Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of the Medicaid program under federal...
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Health reform law isn’t as sweeping when it comes to dental coverage, but Appalachian dentists say it should help
Dr. Heather Whitt explains costs to Anita Slone at the Eula HallHealth Center in Floyd County. (C-J photo by Jessica Ebelhar) In Floyd County, almost 40 percent of adults have...
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In Floyd County, opinions about health care reform depend on whom you ask, and in some cases they are surprising
At the Eula Hall Health Center in Grethel, nurse Stephanie Clark takes vitals of Mary Murphy, 54, whose leg blood clot wasn’t treated for 15 years because she couldn’t afford...
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Beshear says Kynect signups show importance of health-care reform to Kentucky’s health; Republican foes keep attacking it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Opponents of federal health reform kept up their drumbeat Tuesday as Gov. Steve Beshear announced the latest, but still not quite final, signup figures...
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McConnell continues attack on Obamacare as Washington Post gives him ‘four Pinocchios’ for misleading article in C-J
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell took the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as an opportunity to repeat his criticism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act....
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Louisville jails sign up inmates for health coverage to save the state money; other jails around state may follow suit
Louisville jails are holding daily health insurance sign-ups for released inmates, Chris Kenning reports for The Courier-Journal. Most inmates qualify for expanded Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...
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Roy Butler, ‘father of Medicaid’ in Kentucky, passes
Roy Butler, called “Father of Medicaid” in Kentucky, died Monday morning of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He grew up during the Great Depression on a farm in Franklin County, where...
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Republicans wait for elections and chance to roll back Medicaid expansion; few Kentucky Democrats defend Obamacare
Though thousands of their constituents have benefited from it, Republican state legislators say they are planning to roll back Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection...
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Kentuckians who ran into problems signing up for insurance on state website get a second chance through April 11
Kentuckians who had trouble starting or completing their application during the open enrollment period can still apply for subsidies and purchase health coverage at Kynect.ky.gov through midnight April 11. This applies...
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State will reopen health-insurance enrollment for eight days, starting Friday, citing heavy demand
Kentucky will extend its deadline to sign up for insurance under federal health reform, citing a surge of last minute applications. Gov. Steve Beshear announced Tuesday that Kentuckians will be...