Tag: Medicaid
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As Obamacare spreads in Kentucky, the state remains conflicted about it and other forms of government help
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Even as Obamacare coverage spreads in Kentucky, more widely than in almost any other state, the commonwealth remains conflicted about it and other forms...
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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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Federal budget deal targets Medicare payments, and that means Kentucky hospitals won’t be happy
Looking for a way to localize the budget deal announced by congressional negotiators last night? Call up your local hospital. David Rogers of Politico reports that hospitals are “furious with...
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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...
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Beshear says Medicaid plan will transform Ky. in a generation; acknowledges it was easier because he wouldn’t face voters
In a generation, Kentucky will be a very different state because the federal health-reform law and expansion of Medicaid has made health insurance available to all residents of the state,...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their doctors, but many Americans and some Kentuckians won’t...
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Haynes asks hospitals for a truce as they and state work through problems with managed-care Medicaid
Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes won a smattering of applause from Kentucky hospital officials Thursday as she called for “not a surrender, but a truce” as her cabinet...
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Ky. Hospital Association defends ‘critical access’ designation that gives small, rural hospitals a federal financial boost
The Kentucky Hospital Association came out strongly for continued federal support of small, rural hospitals Thursday, objecting to a proposal that the “critical access hospital” designation be based entirely on...
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Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piece he and the Democratic governors of Connecticut and...