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Beshear, writing in The New York Times, defends Obamacare
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling oppon...
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month: Policy changes underway in Ky. to lower its very high childhood obesity rate
September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and a number of policy changes are underway to combat the increasing trend of overw...
UK researcher calls for change in state law to allow syringe exchange program to curb hepatitis C epidemic in Eastern Ky.
Despite the benefits associated with syringe- or needle-exchange programs in preventing the spread of hepatitis C, Kentucky law still prohib...
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Appalachia,
drug abuse,
drug use,
health policy,
public health,
state law
What Sorts of People are "Most Influential in Healthcare?"
Modern Healthcare just put out their list of the "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare" for 2013. A look at what sorts of p...
Hospital and insurance chiefs say health reform will improve Ky.'s health care and its health, after bumps in road
Doctor shortage news: Residencies are filling the pond with primary care doctors, but U.S. and Ky. need an ocean of them
Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the country, only 25 percent of newly educated doctors go into this field, and even worse for...
Poll shows strong support for medical marijuana in Kentucky
Medicaid expansion could change Kentucky's course, big time
W. Va. plans private-public model to provide school breakfast, improve child health, fight obesity; could this approach help Ky.?
Feds letting Arkansas privatize Medicaid expansion; idea could spread like wildfire, as in Florida, but cost questions remain
Arkansas has turned heads nationally with its preliminary plan to expand Medicaid using the private insurance market, showing that the Obama...
Bill to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay up, and more promptly, nears final form in House and will get attention in Senate
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The complaints by many health-care providers about Medicare managed-care firms' dela...
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky gives UK $1 million for endowed co-chairs in rural health policy
Three Kentucky health departments in first group up for national accreditation; requires local health assessment, improvement plan
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Three Kentucky health departments are among the first in the nation to be considered for national acc...
Bill to shield nursing homes from lawsuits clears Senate along party lines; not looking healthy in House despite TV, radio ads
Last week the state Senate approved on party lines a bill that would make lawsuits against nursing homes go through a review panel first. Re...
Medically unnecessary procedures are part of culture of disability in Eastern Kentucky, professor writes
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disabilities,
health policy,
heart disease,
Hospitals,
rural health
Obamacare is unpopular in nine swing states, but not when the law is described without that label
Party labels affect what rural voters think about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the latest National Rural Ass...
Fool Us Once, Shame on You, Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us - The Untrustworthy Pronouncements of Aetna's Former CEOs
A small tempest in the larger US health care reform teapot was produced a few weeks ago when Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna, declared in ...
US Presidential Candidates' Financial Relationships with Health Care Organizations
As the leadership of the large field of Republican candidates for the US Presidency shifts, different candidates come in for increased media...
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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...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
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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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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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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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...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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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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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...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
