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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...
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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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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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FactCheck.org finds little support for Sen. Rand Paul's claim that Medicaid expansion will 'bankrupt' Kentucky hospitals
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1:21 PM
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on ABC 's "This Week" Sunday, Nov. 3 that the federal health-reform law may "bankrupt" rura...
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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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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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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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Shortages of insurance providers and hospitals lead to higher insurance premiums under Obamacare in rural areas
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8:28 AM
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was designed to make it easier for uninsured Americans to buy insurance at an affordable rate...
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Ky.'s successful rollout of health-insurance exchange prompts New York Times to profile Beshear as 'a man on a mission'
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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...
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Free webcast for journalists TODAY at 2 p.m. ET will explore rural use of health-insurance exchanges
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6:25 AM
If you lack health insurance, you're more likely to live in a rural area. Put another way, if you're rural, you're more likely t...
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Nationwide, eyes on are Ky.'s implementation and debate about Obamacare, and thousands of Kentuckians are signing up for it
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3:21 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The good, the bad and the ugly about health reform in Kentucky are showing up on national news as the...
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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)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
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...
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
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
"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...