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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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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...

Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding

Posted by | 8:00 PM
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...

Haynes asks hospitals for a truce as they and state work through problems with managed-care Medicaid

Posted by | 8:44 PM
Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes won a smattering of applause from Kentucky hospital officials Thursday as she called for ...

Beshear and two other Democratic governors say Obamacare is working in their states, and cite examples

Posted by | 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...

At least one insurance company will let Kentuckians keep their health insurance plan for another year if they like it

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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News At least one insurance company, Humana , will be allowing Kentuckians to keep their insurance coverag...

Obama says health policies that don't comply with reforms can be renewed for another year; state will let insurance firms decide

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People with insurance policies that don't measure up to the federal health-reform law will be able to renew them for another year, Presi...

Pike County officials urge newly eligible residents to sign up for health insurance before Dec. 15

Posted by | 8:56 PM
A call to action. That's what Pike County officials are calling their efforts to encourage citizens to sign up for health care insurance...

Friedell Committee will consider what it will take for Kentucky to become a healthier state at meeting Sunday and Monday

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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...

Obamacare's employer mandate poses challenges for schools

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While Kentucky public-school employees get their health insurance through the state’s self-funded program and don't have to worry too mu...

280,000 Kentuckians, almost all those with individual and small-group insurance policies, will have to change under Obamacare

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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies, which are being disc...

Latest New York Times look at Obamacare in Kentucky examines highs and lows of enrollees and people helping them

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  Navigator Kelli Cauley helps an applicant.  (Luke Sharrett, NYT) While many states have suffered through complications in signing up unins...

15 to 25% of uninsured Kentuckians may be eligible for free, non-Medicaid coverage, but watch those out-of-pocket costs

Posted by | 7:43 PM
Millions of Americans who don't quite qualify for Medicaid could still get free health insurance through federal subsidies, but this fre...

Primary care clinics added to Ky. Health Cooperative's network

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The Kentucky Primary Care Association , a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care servic...

Uninsured young adults may qualify for high-deductible health coverage for $50 or less per month on state exchanges

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Almost half of single young adults who are uninsured may qualify for coverage for $50 or less per month under federal health reform, accordi...

Scammers taking advantage of new health-insurance system

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Scammers are using the new health-insurance system "as an opportunity to try to collect consumers’ personal information or to make fals...

A Ky. guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Few laws have generated as much confusion, opposition or news coverage as the Patient Protection and ...

Kentucky's Obamacare website's success resulted from careful and early testing, unlike the federal website, writers say

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While Kynect , Kentucky's online health insurance marketplace, is being hailed as the country's best Obamacare website, the federal ...

Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7

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The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky's online health in...

Obamacare will work, Beshear promises on 'Meet the Press'

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By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Citing Kentucky examples, Gov. Steve Beshear promised a national audience on " Meet the Press " S...

GOP claim that Obamacare will hike Kentuckians' premiums 34 percent is 'mostly false,' Herald-Leader says in an analysis

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A Republican Party claim that Obamacare will raise Kentuckians' health-insurance premiums 34 percent is mostly false, the Lexington Hera...