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Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Physicians say they dislike regulations on use of electronic health records, but they don't want to go back to paper records
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12:22 PM
Doctors say use of electronic health records is one factor contributing to physician dissatisfaction because it interferes with patient care...
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Nationwide, eyes on are Ky.'s implementation and debate about Obamacare, and thousands of Kentuckians are signing up for it
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3:21 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The good, the bad and the ugly about health reform in Kentucky are showing up on national news as the...
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Health reform law is debated and explained on KET
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Two Kentucky Educational Television programs addressed the federal health-reform law Monday night, p...
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Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information
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As if buying health insurance isn't confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to be...
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Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct...
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Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties
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1:46 PM
As a result of an exclusive partnership with UK HealthCare , the Kentucky Health Cooperative , the state's new non-profit insurance car...
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Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care's next era; session to be videostreamed
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Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum "Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Car...
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Federal shutdown won't stop Obamacare, Ky. insurance exchange
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal government is on the brink of shutdown after House Republicans refused to pass a budget u...
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Workers, employers blame Obamacare for higher premiums, but experts say the causes are a lot more complicated than that
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News While the main provisions of the federal health-reform law are only now taking effect, some Americans...
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Delaying individual mandate, as GOP now proposes, would wreck exchanges and Obamacare, Democratic aide warns; McConnell says Republicans can't get Democratic votes they need in Senate
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The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-ref...
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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
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Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling oppon...
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Ky. Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, could help hold down rates and reshape the health-care system
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health i...
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Watch out for specious claims about health-reform law in highly politicized debate; Sen. Paul among those found off base
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The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday's opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under ...
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Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the re...
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Beshear announces rates in health-insurance exchange, says Kentuckians will like them, especially the federal 'discounts'
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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Tossing out the first examples of what Kentuckians will pay for required health coverage through the state ...
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Courier-Journal runs comprehensive list of questions and answers about health insurance exchange set to open Oct. 1
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State health-insurance exchange plans to make smokers pay 40 percent more for coverage; varied interests, observers object
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have touted its goal to provide health i...
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Are health insurers trying to trick individual policyholders into renewing before they can shop on new insurance exchange?
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5:23 AM
UPDATE, Sept. 25: The state has fined Humana $10 per letter, or $65,430, for sending the letters, Chris Kenning of The Courier-Journal repor...
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Just-released figures show uninsured by county, age, income
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People in Logan, Magoffin, Casey, Todd, Menifee, Adair, Monroe, Edmonson and McCreary counties are more likely to lack health insurance than...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...