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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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Indoor air study is background for smoking-ban discussion in Elliott; statewide ban sponsor is optimistic about a vote
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8:32 AM
As the debate over a statewide smoking ban persists, a study shows evidence of harmful air quality levels from second-hand smoke in places w...
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Kentucky will soon require simple screening at birth to detect silent killers of newborns
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8:15 AM
A new state law taking effect in January will require all babies born in Kentucky to be screened for critical congenital heart disease, whic...
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State officials tell health-care providers to meet with managed-care companies to get paid, say new system is improving health
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3:07 PM
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News At the latest in a series of forums on Medicaid managed care, state officials said the ...
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Poll shows strong support for medical marijuana in Kentucky
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7:35 AM
A statewide poll has found that 78 percent of Kentucky adults support the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes if recommended by their do...
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Deadly, drug-resistant bacteria are becoming more common in Kentucky hospitals; key lawmaker wants to require public reporting
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11:18 AM
Nightmarish, drug-resistant bacteria that cause deadly infections are becoming more common in Kentucky hospitals, and a leading legislator o...
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House sends Senate pill-mill and Medicaid managed-care fixes
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10:38 AM
The state House yesterday approved without dissent two bills aimed at improving Kentucky's health care. House Bill 217 addresses some ...
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Lack of statewide smoking ban represents one part of Kentucky's struggle to deal with tobacco use and the health issues it creates
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9:24 AM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News As the bill for a statewide smoking ban lies on its deathbed in the General Assembly, new federal da...
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Bill to make Medicaid managed-care firms pay up, and more promptly, nears final form in House and will get attention in Senate
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6:44 AM
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The complaints by many health-care providers about Medicare managed-care firms' dela...
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Bill to shield nursing homes from lawsuits clears Senate along party lines; not looking healthy in House despite TV, radio ads
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1:52 PM
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...
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Herald-Leader says state running out of time to fix Medicaid managed care, with decision on expansion looming
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10:45 AM
A recent editorial in the Lexington Herald-Leader called for swift legislative action to fix the problems of Medicaid managed care. Timely...
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Senate advances bill to allow Christian heath coverage cooperative back into Kentucky
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4:49 AM
Without dissent, the state Senate approved a bill Wednesday, Feb. 13, that would grant Christian health cost-sharing organization Medi-Share...
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Republicans moving to gain a say over Beshear's decisions about insurance exchange, Medicaid expansion; Democrat dismissive
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11:27 AM
Kentucky Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, left , said yesterday that she would file legislation that wo...
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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...