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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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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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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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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...
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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
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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...
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McConnell calls for one-year delay in reform law's key requirement, that Americans buy health insurance
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10:00 AM
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is calling for a one-year delay in the requirement for almost all Americans to buy healt...
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Obamacare hearing highlights employers' worry and uncertainty; Yarmuth says repeal and defunding bids block needed changes
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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...
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Critics say new Medicare rate-setting board has too much power; former budget chief says new system requires it
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6:19 AM
Critics as diverse as Republican state Rep. Addia Wuchner and former national Democratic chairman and Vermont governor Howard Dean, a physic...
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Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.'s health care and its health, after bumps in road
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8:24 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The federal health-reform law will improve health care and help make Kentuckians healthier, though some wil...
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Family physicians group objects to cuts to primary-care physician training programs; cites doctor shortage, which is worse in Ky.
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6:57 PM
Facing an already-existing shortage of primary care in the country and state, the American Academy of Family Physicians sent a letter to U....
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Invisible health panel could help Ky., if it had money and met
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11:32 AM
A panel charged with helping devise solutions to the nation’s health-care workforce crisis, which includes ensuring rural areas have enough ...
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McConnell helped Amgen delay price limits on dialysis drug
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10:40 AM
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose public statements usually emphasize the need to cut federal spending on entitlem...
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Fiscal-cliff deal revives program that helps rural hospitals dependent on Medicare; 200 in nation, 10 in Kentucky
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11:53 AM
Even though most of the hospital industry wasn't happy with the fiscal-cliff deal that will only pay half the $30 billion needed to avoi...
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Haynes: Medicaid case managers threatened, and more bumps ahead, but state beginning to see advantages of new system
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8:39 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Some Medicaid case managers' lives have been threatened because they have tried to get Medicaid patient...
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Lame-duck Congress could cut funding for critical access hospitals; more than two dozen in Kentucky
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11:22 AM
Critical access hospitals, which in most states are rural facilities with fewer than 25 beds, may be under attack in the lame-duck session o...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
"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...
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 ...
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...
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...