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Beshear to speak in Washington Thursday about health care's next era; session to be videostreamed
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1:31 PM
Gov. Steve Beshear will deliver the keynote address to the National Journal forum "Countdown to Transformation: A Roadmap to Health Car...
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Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange
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11:46 AM
A judge upheld Gov. Steve Beshear's decisions to expand Medicaid and set up the state's health-insurance exchange under federal heal...
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Kentucky, insurance companies are applying lessons learned in state's hurried transition to managed-care Medicaid
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1:01 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Gov. Steve Beshear rushed to transplant Medicaid into a new bed called managed care, hoping the new m...
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Kentucky among states selected to study, address expensive problem of 'superusers' of emergency rooms
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1:30 PM
Kentucky is one of a few states teaming up with the National Governors Association to address the expensive problem of uninsured or Medicai...
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Business leaders discuss possibility of expanding Medicaid through private insurance
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1:32 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Some Kentucky business leaders are discussing a possible endorsement of expanding Medicaid through pr...
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Lawsuit alleges state health insurance exchange is unauthorized
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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...
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Beshear vetoes prompt-pay bill but takes several steps to address problems in Medicaid; he and Haynes say it's working
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12:10 PM
Gov. Steve Beshear has vetoed the bill designed to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay health-care providers more quickly, but is taking ad...
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Will Kentucky expand Medicaid, and if so, how?
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11:30 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Kentucky is one of the last states to decide whether to expand Medicaid under federal health reform, ...
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Senate sends bill for prompt payment by managed-care firms to Beshear, who won't say whether he will sign or veto it
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2:15 PM
A bill aimed at resolving payment disputes between medical providers and Medicaid managed-care companies passed unanimously Monday in the Se...
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Beshear endorses statewide smoking ban as bill moves to the House floor; Williamsburg adopts its own ban
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11:52 AM
Gov. Steve Beshear endorsed a statewide smoking ban yesterday at a Frankfort rally to push the bill that would enact the ban. "Beshear,...
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Beshear calls for action to improve state's health, but says only that 'It's time for us to begin looking seriously' at a smoking ban
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8:57 PM
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News His priorities were education and tax reform, but Gov. Steve Beshear mentioned several health issues in his...
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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)
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Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
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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
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"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...