Your Healt Your Life - Enjoy Your Healthy Life

Federal shutdown won't stop Obamacare, Ky. insurance exchange

Posted by | 3:06 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal government is on the brink of shutdown after House Republicans refused to pass a budget u...

Obamacare hearing highlights employers' worry and uncertainty; Yarmuth says repeal and defunding bids block needed changes

Posted by | 6:23 PM
Three of Kentucky's congressmen agreement at a field hearing in Lexington Tuesday that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ne...

Health Watch USA hosts chief medical director of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Lexington and online July 31

Posted by | 1:53 PM
Dr. Patrick Conway , chief medical director of the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services , will be presenting to Kentucky-based ...

As Medicaid eligibility expands in Kentucky, so will subsidy of undocumented immigrants' health care

Posted by | 11:51 AM
As Washington lawmakers struggle to find consensus on immigration reform, U.S. taxpayers continue to shell out money to subsidize health car...

Business leaders discuss possibility of expanding Medicaid through private insurance

Posted by | 1:32 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky business leaders are discussing a possible endorsement of expanding Medicaid through pr...

Baucus sees a health-reform 'train wreck,' fearing insurance exchanges won't be ready

Posted by | 12:59 PM
Max Baucus (J. Scott Applewhite, AP) Senator Max Baucus, who as Senate Finance Committee chair helped write the health-care reform law, has...

FDA requires OxyContin pills to be non-crushable to deter abuse

Posted by | 6:42 PM
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it would block generic, crushable versions of OxyContin from coming to the market an...

Lawsuit alleges state health insurance exchange is unauthorized

Posted by | 8:38 AM
Tea Party activist David Adams filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Gov. Steve Beshear's legal authority to create Kentucky's health i...

Feds plan to let states impose co-payments on Medicaid patients above poverty level to encourage them to expand the program

Posted by | 6:22 PM
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News If Kentucky expands its Medicaid program, it will probably be able to reduce the cost by...