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Adair County residents will get an extra tax bill as trustees of bankrupt hospital vote to levy a tax to pay its debts
Facing a $20 million debt and in bankruptcy, the Adair County Hospital District trustees voted unanimously Oct. 4 to impose a 10 cents-per-...
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health care,
Hospitals,
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State health-insurance exchange plans to make smokers pay 40 percent more for coverage; varied interests, observers object
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Supporters of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have touted its goal to provide health i...
Effort for kids' dental health in Clark, started by volunteers and continued by health department with tax, earns national award
"A community effort to fight tooth decay in children in Clark County has been named a model for the nation," veteran journalist Al...
Adair County Hospital District files Chapter 9 bankruptcy
In a move perhaps unprecedented in Kentucky, the Adair County Hospital District has voted to file for protection under Chapter 9 of the fed...
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Hospitals,
local government,
newspapers,
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Knox County converting ambulance tax, taking 3/8 of health tax and asking library for same in order to save hospital
Health departments raise, or try to raise, tax rates to offset state cuts, higher benefit costs and Medicaid payment problems
Some county health departments are trying, and others may try, to increase property-tax rates to make up for Medicaid shortfalls, program cu...
Commission says drastic changes to doctor pay and cuts to wasteful services can fix Medicare problem without tax hikes
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Health Care Costs,
health reform,
Medicaid,
Medicare,
physicians,
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The world is getting fatter, but Kentucky's rate of obesity is two and a half times the world rate
Take no solace from The Economist , which proclaims in its yearly analysis-and-prognostication issue that this is the year world leaders wi...
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diabetes,
health journalism,
hypertension,
nutrition,
obesity,
taxes
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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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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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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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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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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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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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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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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
