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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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Obama and allies tout preventive-services and drug benefits of health-reform law to Medicare beneficiaries in Ky.
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9:09 AM
The federal health-reform law has made drugs more affordable for seniors, broadened coverage for preventive services and made Medicare more ...
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New report ranks Kentucky 45th in overall senior health
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7:45 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Everyone dreams about retirement being a happy, healthy time to finally settle down, take time for yo...
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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...
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...
Aug. 28 webinar will help journalists understand health reform
Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item ( see below ) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insur...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Peering Underneath the Iceberg's Water Level: AMNews on the New ECRI "Deep Dive" Study of Health IT "Events"
FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Jeffrey Shuren MD JD voiced the opinion a few years ago that what FDA knows a...