Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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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Ky. Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, could help hold down rates and reshape the health-care system
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health insurance — a cooperative that is...
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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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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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Obamacare recruiters encounter resistance in rural Kentucky
Promoters of the new health-insurance system being created under the federal health-reform law are running into resistance in rural Kentucky, where “tend to be less connected to the Internet and...
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Hard-hitting TV ads against smoking do motivate smokers, like one mother from Elizabethtown, to quit
Hancock with CDC Director Tom Frieden A 38-year-old Elizabethtown mother’s response to a federally funded anti-smoking advertising campaign has been featured in national news this week, showing that these graphic ads...
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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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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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Courier-Journal runs comprehensive list of questions and answers about health insurance exchange set to open Oct. 1
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309070050
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State health-insurance exchange plans to make smokers pay 40 percent more for coverage; varied interests, observers object
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have touted its goal to provide health insurance to all Americans without discrimination, such as...