Tag: obamacare
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State health-insurance website crashes after 24,000 use it; later, officials say almost 78,000 visited it by 7 p.m.
The website of Kynect, the state’s new health-insurance marketplace, crashed at 8:30 a.m. today, because so many people were trying to use it, Gov. Steve Beshear’s office said. Similar problems...
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Workers, employers blame Obamacare for higher premiums, but experts say the causes are a lot more complicated than that
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News While the main provisions of the federal health-reform law are only now taking effect, some Americans are already saying it doesn’t work and are...
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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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McConnell calls for one-year delay in reform law’s key requirement, that Americans buy health insurance
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is calling for a one-year delay in the requirement for almost all Americans to buy health insurance, followed by repeal of the...
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Beshear announces rates in health-insurance exchange, says Kentuckians will like them, especially the federal ‘discounts’
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Tossing out the first examples of what Kentuckians will pay for required health coverage through the state health insurance exchange that opens Oct. 1,...
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Just-released figures show uninsured by county, age, income
People in Logan, Magoffin, Casey, Todd, Menifee, Adair, Monroe, Edmonson and McCreary counties are more likely to lack health insurance than residents of other Kentucky counties, according to the data...
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Rural doctors need to support recruitment of more colleagues, former Leitchfield hospital administrator writes
With Kentucky’s doctor shortage about to be exacerbated by expansion of the Medicaid program and federally subsidized health insurance, there will be more competition than ever to recruit physicians, especially...
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FactCheck.org: Health reform does not ‘kill jobs’; GOP disagrees
In their report released last week, Republicans in the U.S. House said the new health reform law will be “job-killing,” but FactCheck.org has concluded that is not necessarily the case....