Tag: Medicaid
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Leaders in Medicaid, public health and advocacy entering UK College of Public Health Hall of Fame
The father of Kentucky’s Medicaid program, the co-author of a popular smoking-cessation program and a leading advocate for mental health and the disabled will join the University of Kentucky College of...
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Federal shutdown won’t stop Obamacare, Ky. insurance exchange
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal government is on the brink of shutdown after House Republicans refused to pass a budget unless it involved a delay in the...
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Here are the basics of buying health insurance on the state exchange that opens Tuesday
On Tuesday, Americans can begin buying health insurance through state exchanges created by federal health reform. Journalists have spent months trying to understand the reform law in an attempt to...
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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling opponents of Obamacare to “Get over it.” Now, as...
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Watch out for specious claims about health-reform law in highly politicized debate; Sen. Paul among those found off base
The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday’s opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under the federal health reform law. “Obamacare” has been politicized...
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Weekly newspaper in Jessamine County localizes the changes coming to health insurance and health care
The Jessamine Journal did a story this week that every Kentucky newspaper can do, spotlighting the local impacts of Medicaid expansion under federal health reform and federal tax credits for...
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Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the recession, Kentucky poverty rates increased and...
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State picks managed-care outfits for expanded Medicaid
The state awarded contracts Friday to Humana Inc., Passport Health Plan and Wellpoint subsidiary Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to manage the health care of Kentuckians who will become eligible for Medicaid when...
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Kentucky has nation’s first statewide, comprehensive plan for diabetes prevention; 10 percent of us have the disease
Kentucky leads the way in the fight against diabetes and towards improving health for future generations of Kentuckians by becoming the first state to legislatively require a statewide, comprehensive action...
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Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange
A judge upheld Gov. Steve Beshear’s decisions to expand Medicaid and set up the state’s health-insurance exchange under federal health reform, but his adversaries say they will continue to fight...