Tag: state government
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Beshear says Ky. is ‘gold standard’ for implementing Obamacare, trades shots with McConnell in Washington
“Kentucky has become the gold standard when it comes to implementing the Affordable Care Act, and I’m very proud of that,” Gov. Steve Beshear said Thursday morning at a press...
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Obama, fighting to regain traction, calls out McConnell on health care; Kentucky senator replies, and president does it again
White House file photo President Obama called out U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell two days in a row in speeches defending the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an example...
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Beshear says Medicaid plan will transform Ky. in a generation; acknowledges it was easier because he wouldn’t face voters
In a generation, Kentucky will be a very different state because the federal health-reform law and expansion of Medicaid has made health insurance available to all residents of the state,...
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Obama says health policies that don’t comply with reforms can be renewed for another year; state will let insurance firms decide
People with insurance policies that don’t measure up to the federal health-reform law will be able to renew them for another year, President Obama announced today in an effort to...
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Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday
What will it take for Kentucky to become a healthier state? That will be the question at the fall meeting of the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation, at the...
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280,000 Kentuckians, almost all those with individual and small-group insurance policies, will have to change under Obamacare
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies, which are being discontinued because they don’t comply with the Patient Protection and...
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Flu vaccine recommended for all over 6 months; pneumonia vaccine recommended for those 65 and older and at high risk
Vaccination is the best way to keep from getting the flu, and with two influenza cases already reported in Kentucky, now is the time to schedule your annual flu shot,...
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Scammers taking advantage of new health-insurance system
Scammers are using the new health-insurance system “as an opportunity to try to collect consumers’ personal information or to make false claims,” Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway...
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A Ky. guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Few laws have generated as much confusion, opposition or news coverage as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Despite the flood of news...
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Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky’s online health insurance exchange, KYnect, Nov. 7 at the West Kentucky Community and...