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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
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8:04 PM
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...
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Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
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9:09 PM
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...
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California Health Reform
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Haynes asks hospitals for a truce as they and state work through problems with managed-care Medicaid
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8:44 PM
Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes won a smattering of applause from Kentucky hospital officials Thursday as she called for ...
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Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
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5:11 PM
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples
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8:48 AM
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
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At least one insurance company will let Kentuckians keep their health insurance plan for another year if they like it
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8:07 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News At least one insurance company, Humana , will be allowing Kentuckians to keep their insurance coverag...
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FactCheck.org finds little support for Sen. Rand Paul's claim that Medicaid expansion will 'bankrupt' Kentucky hospitals
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1:21 PM
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on ABC 's "This Week" Sunday, Nov. 3 that the federal health-reform law may "bankrupt" rura...
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The Obamacare Rollout: The Administration Needs a Plan B––Now!
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4:58 AM
It is now becoming clear that the Obama administration will not have Health.care.gov fixed by December 1 so hundreds of thousands, or perhap...
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Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday
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8:39 PM
What will it take for Kentucky to become a healthier state? That will be the question at the fall meeting of the Friedell Committee for Heal...
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Obamacare's employer mandate poses challenges for schools
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8:26 PM
While Kentucky public-school employees get their health insurance through the state’s self-funded program and don't have to worry too mu...
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Latest New York Times look at Obamacare in Kentucky examines highs and lows of enrollees and people helping them
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12:01 PM
Navigator Kelli Cauley helps an applicant. (Luke Sharrett, NYT) While many states have suffered through complications in signing up unins...
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The Obamacare Rollout––Week Five
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7:38 AM
Enrollments continue to trickle in. Health plans, with the kind of market share that would have to sign-up 100,000 to 200,000 people for the...
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"Substandard Plans" Offered by "Bad Apple Insurers"––Does the Obama Administration Understand How the Health Insurance Market Works?
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8:58 AM
Yesterday, the President said in Boston that the millions of people who are getting cancellation letters ending their coverage in the indivi...
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Scammers taking advantage of new health-insurance system
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2:01 AM
Scammers are using the new health-insurance system "as an opportunity to try to collect consumers’ personal information or to make fals...
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Mr. President: I like My Health Insurance and I Would Really Like to Keep It––Can You Help Me Out Here?
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9:19 AM
How many times have I talked on this Blog about rate shock, the millions of people who would be getting cancellation letters from their curr...
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Kentucky's Obamacare website's success resulted from careful and early testing, unlike the federal website, writers say
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1:47 PM
While Kynect , Kentucky's online health insurance marketplace, is being hailed as the country's best Obamacare website, the federal ...
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Over At The Health Care Blog, Aneesh Chopra Distorts IT Failure Reality
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12:28 PM
I feel sorry for President Obama. I really do. He's been deceived by IT hyperenthusiasts who, in addition to their hyperenthusiasm, pr...
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Obamacare will work, Beshear promises on 'Meet the Press'
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7:14 AM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing Kentucky examples, Gov. Steve Beshear promised a national audience on " Meet the Press " S...
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The Commitment to Fix Obamacare's Computer Systems By December 1––Because It Can Be Done By Then or Because It Has To Be Done By Then?
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2:50 PM
The good news is that it appears the adults are finally in charge of healthcare.gov. This week, the administration put a seasoned and truste...
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GOP claim that Obamacare will hike Kentuckians' premiums 34 percent is 'mostly false,' Herald-Leader says in an analysis
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6:11 AM
A Republican Party claim that Obamacare will raise Kentuckians' health-insurance premiums 34 percent is mostly false, the Lexington Hera...
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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...