Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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New website explores and outs of Affordable Care Act; useful tool for reporters
One of the most complex and far-reaching pieces of legislation to pass in recent years is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal health-care reform law that, among...
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Medicare is a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail; federal agency says reform has saved seniors money
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and runningmate Paul Ryan talk health care in New Hampshire. Photoby Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe. The federal health reform law continues to be...
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Several hundred, including Sens. McConnell and Paul, attend tea-party rally to express displeasure about health reform law
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Hundreds of tea-party activists showed up at a midday rally at the state Capitol to protest the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and...
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Legislative committee delays vote on state insurance exchange, though the move is only symbolic
Kentucky legislators have made another symbolic move against creating a health insurance exchange, with the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare delaying a vote on its creation until next...
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About 290,000 more Kentuckians would be eligible for Medicaid if state expands program, Urban Institute study finds
About 289,000 more people in Kentucky would be able to get health insurance if the state opts to expand its Medicaid program up to 138 percent of the federal poverty...
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Papa John’s CEO says new health law will raise price of pizza by 11 to 14 cents; Courier-Journal says that’s worth it
Papa John’s found and CEO John Schnatter. Courier-Journal photo Papa John‘s CEO John Schnatter did more than put the Affordable Care Act under the microscope this week, he threw it...
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What it’s like to lack health insurance, and how health reform is changing that: It’s a story for every county, with local data
The Kentucky Standard‘s Randy Patrick deftly shows how the federal health-care reform law is having an effect at the individual level by telling the story of Bonnie Varnell, a Nelson...
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New health law and aging baby boomers’ anticipated strain on the system is about to make chronic doctor shortage worse
Kentucky’s persistent physician shortage is hardly new. Almost a century ago, the Frontier Nursing Service came to Hyden on the presumption that doctors wouldn’t. A report from the Health Resources...
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State insurance exchanges are good for farmers and other rural residents, farmers union president writes
Farmers and rural Americans have much to gain from state health-insurance exchanges under federal health reform, since “Rural residents often have the hardest time getting health insurance,” the president of the Wisconsin...
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Doctors shifting from private practice to large hospitals for more security under health-care reform
Associated Press photo by Michael Schennum. The days of hanging up a shingle and opening shop are becoming more and more unusual for doctors. Afraid of being left without protection in...