Tag: Medicaid
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New state senator, a former hospital boss, says health system needs fundamental repairs to increase access and affordability
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Four state legislators held to their party-line opinions about Obamacare on KET this week, but one said instead of creating another “piecemeal” replacement for...
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Ex-Gov. Beshear opposes Medicaid block grants at U.S. Senate hearing, says any changes should be ‘deliberate and thoughtful’
Former Gov. Steve Beshear Former Gov. Steve Beshear urged lawmakers at a Feb. 1 U.S. Senate hearing to not turn Medicaid into a block-grant program and to move forward in...
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Republicans want to block-grant Medicaid but can’t agree on how
Most Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump support a plan to turn Medicaid into a block-grant program, which would limit spending and give each state a set amount of money...
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Medicaid expansion had more impact in rural areas, study says
Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act greatly increased access to health care for Americans, especially in rural areas, says an Indiana University study published in The Journal of Rural...
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Bevin asks Congress to get rid of Obamacare and, if Medicaid expansion continues, limit it to those who are in poverty
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin has taken a stronger stance against Obamacare than his fellow Republican governors, urging Congress to repeal it “in its entirety” and...
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Did Medicaid expansion make people move from non-expansion states to Kentucky? A study suggests it did not
When Kentucky expanded Medicaid and Tennessee and Virginia didn’t, did that prompt some people to move from Tennessee and Virginia to Kentucky? A study suggests that it did not. There...
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Ky. still pursuing Medicaid waiver; Obamacare repeal could convert the program to block grants, giving states more flexibility
Kentucky will continue pursuing its proposed changes for the expanded Medicaid program even if Congress repeals and replaces the law that authorized the expansion, state Health Secretary Vickie Yates Brown...
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul suggests that if Kentucky wants to keep its Medicaid expansion, it should raise taxes to pay for it
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul suggested Sunday that Kentucky and other states that expanded Medicaid under federal health reform should have to raise taxes to keep it expanded and not rely...
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Study says removing Medicaid expansion and premium subsidies, without replacement, would cost 45,000 jobs in Kentucky in 2019
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Repealing and not replacing two key parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – expansion of the Medicaid program and subsidies for...
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PBS NewsHour looks at Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion, governor’s plans to change it and his predecessor’s reaction
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/kentuckys-medicaid-expansion-aca-soon-change/