Tag: politics
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Candidates for governor make misstatements and questionable assertions in debate, many about health issues
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Many of the questionable assertions and outright misstatements in Sunday night’s debate for governor were about health care. Here’s a fact check: Bevin said...
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Fate of health coverage through Medicaid expansion and Kynect insurance exchange could rest on outcome of governor’s race
By Cheyene Miller and Anthony Pendleton University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications The fate of health coverage for about half a million Kentuckians could rest on the...
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Medicaid expansion is at stake in the Nov. 3 election for governor; Bevin’s spokeswoman offers a bit more detail of his plans
Kentucky could become the first state to reverse expansion of the Medicaid program under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Frankfort correspondent Adam Beam reports for The Associated Press....
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Kentucky Health Cooperative, burdened by unhealthy policyholders and Congress’s cuts in a subsidy, is closing
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Kentucky Health Cooperative, which sold 75 percent of the policies bought through the state health-insurance exchange, is going out of business because it...
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New ad blames problems of Ky. hospitals entirely on Obamacare; they say it’s only partly to blame, but worry about future impacts
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new ad in the race for governor says “There’s a crisis in our hospitals” in Kentucky, and blames it entirely on the federal...
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Beshear keeps up defense of Obamacare, McConnell gives only a short rebuttal at State Fair breakfast
Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell traded views on health-care reform at the Kentucky Farm Bureau‘s country-ham breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair, but McConnell made...
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Legislative leaders debate future of Medicaid expansion
“There’s no doubt that health care remains a significant issue for politicians and voters in the commonwealth. While thousands of Kentuckians have health insurance for the first time, Frankfort continues...
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Medicaid manager Passport gives $25,000 to Democratic group that has given heavily to committee backing Conway for governor
Passport Health Plan, which manages Medicaid care for hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians, gave $25,000 this year to the Democratic Governors Association, “which already this year has given $600,000 to...
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Bevin and Conway to speak, answer questions about health policy at rural-health group’s meeting Sept. 18 in Bowling Green
The Kentucky Rural Health Association is hosting a “Candidates Forum on Health” Friday, Sept. 18 in Bowling Green, after the conclusion of its annual conference. All of the candidates running...
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Beshear writes reply to a Virginia newspaper, pushing Medicaid expansion like he implemented in Kentucky
Gov. Steve Beshear, trying to help a fellow Democratic governor who is trying to expand Medicaid, has written a response to an editorial in which a Virginia largest state-capital newspaper opposed the...