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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...

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...

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...

McConnell calls for one-year delay in reform law's key requirement, that Americans buy health insurance

Posted by | 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...

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...

Critics say new Medicare rate-setting board has too much power; former budget chief says new system requires it

Posted by | 6:19 AM
Critics as diverse as Republican state Rep. Addia Wuchner and former national Democratic chairman and Vermont governor Howard Dean, a physic...

Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.'s health care and its health, after bumps in road

Posted by | 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...

Family physicians group objects to cuts to primary-care physician training programs; cites doctor shortage, which is worse in Ky.

Posted by | 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....

Invisible health panel could help Ky., if it had money and met

Posted by | 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 ...

McConnell helped Amgen delay price limits on dialysis drug

Posted by | 10:40 AM
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, whose public statements usually emphasize the need to cut federal spending on entitlem...

Fiscal-cliff deal revives program that helps rural hospitals dependent on Medicare; 200 in nation, 10 in Kentucky

Posted by | 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...

Haynes: Medicaid case managers threatened, and more bumps ahead, but state beginning to see advantages of new system

Posted by | 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...

Lame-duck Congress could cut funding for critical access hospitals; more than two dozen in Kentucky

Posted by | 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...