Tag: state government
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Medicaid is in a bigger hole than she expected, Glisson says
Kentucky’s Medicaid program is $124 million over budget and faces a $611 million deficit over the next two years due to its expansion under federal health reform, the impending end...
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PAC ad calls for ‘no more Obamacare’ though Bevin and Stivers say they want to keep covering people in Medicaid expansion
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A pro-Republican political committee that doesn’t reveal its contributors is running a television commercial in response to former Gov. Steve Beshear’s effort to preserve...
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Bevin administration seeks maximum fines against Planned Parenthood, alleging 23 abortions at Louisville facility were illegal
The administration of Gov. Matt Bevin has filed a lawsuit seeking fines against Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, alleging that it performed 23 abortions without proper authorization in December...
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New state insurance commissioner OKs Aetna-Humana merger without a hearing, drawing criticism from the left and right
Critics on the left and right are criticizing the new state insurance commissioner’s approval of the merger of health insurers Aetna Inc. and Louisville-based Humana Inc., “saying it deprived Kentuckians...
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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky CEO makes the case for a statewide law to ban smoking in most public places
Susan Zepeda The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, which doesn’t lobby for or against particular legislation or endorse it, came close in a Feb. 11 “guest editorial” from its president...
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Kentuckians split on policy changes to deter teen tobacco use; split on increasing cigarette tax by $1, OK with raising legal age
When it comes to state policies to discourage smoking, Kentuckians are evenly divided on whether to increase the state’s tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1, but support raising...
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Bevin says ending Kynect will cost ‘small fraction’ of estimate; warns lack of deal with feds means Medicaid expansion ends
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin says shutting down the Kynect health-insurance exchange will cost “a small fraction” of the $23 million estimate given...
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Three more Kentucky counties, two of them rural, recently approved needle exchanges, making six counties with them
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Jessamine, Carter and Elliott counties are the latest Kentucky counties to approve needle exchange programs, joining Fayette (Lexington), Jefferson (Louisville) and Pendleton counties. The...
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Paducah Sun and New York Times cross editorial swords over Gov. Bevin’s plan to abolish Kynect health-insurance exchange
Gov. Matt Bevin’s decision to close down the Kynect health-insurance exchange drew editorial criticism from The New York Times but an endorsement from The Paducah Sun. “His shortsighted and pointless...
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Seeing statewide smoking ban unlikely, Grayson County group asked Fiscal Court for a local one; only one magistrate favored it
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The efforts to pass smoking bans in Kentucky continue on three fronts: in the General Assembly, for a statewide ban; with local governments, for...