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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...

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

Posted by | 8:07 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News At least one insurance company, Humana , will be allowing Kentuckians to keep their insurance coverag...

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

Posted by | 1:02 PM
The Kentucky Primary Care Association , a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes access to comprehensive primary health care servic...

New CEO of Owensboro Health says hospitals are working to improve care, regardless of federal health reform

Posted by | 1:01 PM
Philip Patterson, the new CEO of the  Owensboro Health , says hospitals are moving towards health reform regardless of what happens with the...

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

Posted by | 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...

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

Posted by | 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 ...

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

Posted by | 6:11 AM
A Republican Party claim that Obamacare will raise Kentuckians' health-insurance premiums 34 percent is mostly false, the Lexington Hera...

Ky.'s successful rollout of health-insurance exchange prompts New York Times to profile Beshear as 'a man on a mission'

Posted by | 6:02 PM
A weekend article in The New York Times describes Gov. Steve Beshear as a man determined to prove that the health-reform law works, and say...

Here are tools and resources to help you understand how the health reform law impacts you, your family and your business

Posted by | 1:47 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The rollout of the insurance-buying section of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act started Oct...

Ky. Health Cooperative, a new kind of insurer, could help hold down rates and reshape the health-care system

Posted by | 7:15 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health i...

Kentucky poverty rate is fifth highest in U.S., but a larger share of Kentuckians had health insurance in 2012 than in 2011

Posted by | 2:28 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News In 2012, as U.S. incomes remained lower and poverty rates higher than in 2007, the year before the re...

State health-insurance exchange plans to make smokers pay 40 percent more for coverage; varied interests, observers object

Posted by | 1:34 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have touted its goal to provide health i...

Webinars to be held Thursday, Sept. 12, for small businesses to help them plan for implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Posted by | 7:42 AM
What will the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mean for Kentucky's small businesses? A webinar Thursday, Sept. 12 is designed ...

Judge OKs Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange

Posted by | 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...

Obamacare hearing highlights employers' worry and uncertainty; Yarmuth says repeal and defunding bids block needed changes

Posted by | 6:23 PM
Three of Kentucky's congressmen agreement at a field hearing in Lexington Tuesday that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ne...

Eye exams are now required for children ages 3 to 6 when first starting public school or preschool

Posted by | 10:59 AM
Add eye exams to your back-to-school checklist, because state law now requires children aged 3 through 6 who are entering a public school or...

Employers welcome delay in coverage mandate, but individual mandate remains and many uninsured people are unaware of it

Posted by | 2:48 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Obama administration's decision to delay, for a year, the health-reform law's mandate tha...