Tag: obamacare
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Medicaid manager Passport gives $25,000 to Democratic group that has given heavily to committee backing Conway for governor
Passport Health Plan, which manages Medicaid care for hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians, gave $25,000 this year to the Democratic Governors Association, “which already this year has given $600,000 to...
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‘Snapshot’ from continuing study of health reform in Ky. shows steep drop in amount of uncompensated care at hospitals
A continuing study of federal health reform’s impact in Kentucky has found a big drop in uncompensated care at hospitals and broader insurance coverage than in adjoining states. The Foundation...
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Beshear writes reply to a Virginia newspaper, pushing Medicaid expansion like he implemented in Kentucky
Gov. Steve Beshear, trying to help a fellow Democratic governor who is trying to expand Medicaid, has written a response to an editorial in which a Virginia largest state-capital newspaper opposed the...
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich, defending his Medicaid expansion as he runs for president, can point to lower-than-expected costs
John Kasich campaigned in Derry, N.H. (Associated Press photo by Jim Cole) By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Expanded eligibility for Medicaid, an issue in the Kentucky governor’s race, is...
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Kentucky’s uninsured rate continues to drop; now 9 percent
The share of Kentuckians who have no health coverage has dropped to 9 percent, according to the latest data from The Gallup Organization. That makes Kentucky second, following Arkansas, among...
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Legislators wary of commenting on study that says Medicaid expansion will pay for itself by creating jobs and tax revenue
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentucky legislators reflected mainly partisan attitudes about the state’s implementation of federal health reform in a statewide call-in interview show about the state budget...
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State says many screenings of Medicaid patients more than doubled after program was expanded under Obamacare
Countering assertions that Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion doesn’t guarantee health care, state officials have presented data showing that “Kentuckians on Medicaid were far more likely to get cancer screenings, physicals and...
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Health insurance co-op lost $50.4 million, most in U.S.; officials blame high enrollment, big claims; say it will stay solvent
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A federal audit of the non-profit health insurance companies formed under federal health reform found that at the end of 2014, all but one...
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Bevin says he wouldn’t end Medicaid expansion immediately but would transition to modified program; Stivers talks similarly
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News LOUISVILLE — Republican Matt Bevin said Tuesday that if elected governor he would not immediately end the state’s expansion of eligibility for the federal-state...
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Beshear touts Ky. as example to follow in drug fight, Obamacare
As the U.S. health secretary reminded the national governors’ conference that the administration is trying to put another $100 million into fighting drug addiction, Gov. Steve Beshear cited Kentucky as...