Tag: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Forums set to explain state insurance exchange and its new opportunities for coverage, little known to most who will be eligible
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Now that Gov. Steve Beshear has issued the order to create a state health insurance exchange, the state is scheduling public forums to explain...
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Are fallacies about health reform becoming accepted wisdom? Former New York Times editor Bill Keller says he fears so
“A number of fallacies seem to be congealing into accepted wisdom” about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, former New York Times editor Bill Keller writes for the paper....
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Beshear issues order to create insurance exchange as GOP legislators carry symbolic vote against lease to house it
As Gov. Steve Beshear issued an executive order to establish a state insurance exchange this afternoon, lawmakers voted along party lines against a lease that would have housed employees of...
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Biggest problem with health-care reform law is advocates’ poor sales job to the American public, Rep. John Yarmuth tells C-J
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News The biggest problem with the federal health-care reform law is not the law itself, but the fact that “We’ve never done as good a...
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Beshear tells feds he plans to create an insurance exchange
Gov. Steve Beshear. Photo by TheCourier-Journal Gov. Steve Beshear has re-confirmed his plans to create a state health insurance exchange, this time telling the federal government of his intention. Beshear...
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Chart shows impact of Medicaid expansion or rejection
A one-stop graphic that spells out what’s in store for states that don’t elect to expand Medicaid is the subject of a report by The Washington Post‘s Sarah Kliff. The...
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Governors in both parties undecided on whether to expand Medicaid; seeking answers to several questions
There is hesitation among governors on both sides of the aisle regarding whether or not to expand Medicaid, which would cover millions more Americans under the program for the poor...
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Repeal of health law would have big impact on Kentucky, HHS Secretary Sebelius writes
The U.S. House voted again yesterday to repeal the health-care reform law, a move that has no chance of passing in the current Senate and would be vetoed by President...
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Work of UK prof was cited in decision on health care
Professor Nicole Huberfeld.University of Kentucky photo. The work of a University of Kentucky law professor helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the federal health-care reform law. ...
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Legislators, doctors debate how health law will or should affect Kentucky; we answer some questions that were left hanging
By Tara Kaprowy and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Though host Bill Goodman (above, in an advance promo) said they just “scratched the surface” on what the federal health-care reform...