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Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding

Posted by | 8:00 PM
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...

Physicians say they dislike regulations on use of electronic health records, but they don't want to go back to paper records

Posted by | 12:22 PM
Doctors say use of electronic health records is one factor contributing to physician dissatisfaction because it interferes with patient care...

Nationwide, eyes on are Ky.'s implementation and debate about Obamacare, and thousands of Kentuckians are signing up for it

Posted by | 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...

Health reform law is debated and explained on KET

Posted by | 8:36 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Two  Kentucky Educational Television programs addressed the federal health-reform law Monday night, p...

Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information

Posted by | 7:15 PM
As if buying health insurance isn't confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to be...

Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business

Posted by | 1:47 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct...

Kentucky Health Cooperative partners with UK HealthCare, extending coverage to all 120 Kentucky counties

Posted by | 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...

Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care's next era; session to be videostreamed

Posted by | 1:31 PM
Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum "Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Car...

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...

Workers, employers blame Obamacare for higher premiums, but experts say the causes are a lot more complicated than that

Posted by | 2:49 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News While the main provisions of the federal health-reform law are only now taking effect, some Americans...

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

Posted by | 12:02 PM
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-ref...

Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare

Posted by | 7:15 AM
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling oppon...

Ky. Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, could help hold down rates and reshape the health-care system

Posted by | 7:15 PM
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...

Watch out for specious claims about health-reform law in highly politicized debate; Sen. Paul among those found off base

Posted by | 8:53 AM
The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday's opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under ...

Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011

Posted by | 2:28 PM
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...

Beshear announces rates in health-insurance exchange, says Kentuckians will like them, especially the federal 'discounts'

Posted by | 1:59 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Tossing out the first examples of what Kentuckians will pay for required health coverage through the state ...

Courier-Journal runs comprehensive list of questions and answers about health insurance exchange set to open Oct. 1

Posted by | 8:44 PM
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013309070050

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...

Are health insurers trying to trick individual policyholders into renewing before they can shop on new insurance exchange?

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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...

Just-released figures show uninsured by county, age, income

Posted by | 3:57 PM
People in Logan, Magoffin, Casey, Todd, Menifee, Adair, Monroe, Edmonson and McCreary counties are more likely to lack health insurance than...