Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Health reform law is debated and explained on KET
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Two Kentucky Educational Television programs addressed the federal health-reform law Monday night, providing opportunities for Kentuckians to debate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and...
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KET program Mon. to answer questions about the Affordable Health Care Act, its impact on state, and obtaining insurance
KET will host a special call-in program to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s enrollment process Monday, Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The one-hour show will include state...
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Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information
As if buying health insurance isn’t confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to beware of scam artists posing as callers claiming...
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Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct. 1, and regardless of where you stand on the...
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Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare, the Kentucky Health Cooperative, the state’s new non-profit insurance carrier, expanded its coverage Wednesday to the University of Kentucky’s network of...
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Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care’s next era; session to be videostreamed
Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum “Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Care’s Next Era—90 Days Out” tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. Eastern...
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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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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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Delaying individual mandate, as GOP now proposes, would wreck exchanges and Obamacare, Democratic aide warns; McConnell says Republicans can’t get Democratic votes they need in Senate
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-reform law and its requirement for individuals to...