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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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Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
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8:00 PM
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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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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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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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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10:26 AM
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...
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Pike County officials urge newly eligible residents to sign up for health insurance before Dec. 15
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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...
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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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280,000 Kentuckians, almost all those with individual and small-group insurance policies, will have to change under Obamacare
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5:28 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 280,000 Kentuckians will have to give up their current insurance policies, which are being disc...
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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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15 to 25% of uninsured Kentuckians may be eligible for free, non-Medicaid coverage, but watch those out-of-pocket costs
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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...
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Primary care clinics added to Ky. Health Cooperative's network
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1:02 PM
The Kentucky Primary Care Association , a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care servic...
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Uninsured young adults may qualify for high-deductible health coverage for $50 or less per month on state exchanges
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7:48 PM
Almost half of single young adults who are uninsured may qualify for coverage for $50 or less per month under federal health reform, accordi...
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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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A Ky. guide to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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3:05 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Few laws have generated as much confusion, opposition or news coverage as the Patient Protection and ...
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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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Information session on state health insurance exchange to be offered at Paducah Thursday, Nov, 7
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1:36 PM
The Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange will present an information session and allow time for questions about Kentucky's online health in...
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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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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...
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...
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 ...
"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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding...
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...