Federal shutdown won’t stop Obamacare, Ky. insurance exchange
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal government is on the brink of shutdown after House Republicans refused to pass a budget unless it involved a delay in the...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The federal government is on the brink of shutdown after House Republicans refused to pass a budget unless it involved a delay in the...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News While the main provisions of the federal health-reform law are only now taking effect, some Americans are already saying it doesn’t work and are...
On Tuesday, Americans can begin buying health insurance through state exchanges created by federal health reform. Journalists have spent months trying to understand the reform law in an attempt to...
The main health board in Northern Kentucky, where local smoking bans have stirred much controversy. has endorsed the idea of a statewide ban on smoking in all places of employment....
The key piece of the latest House Republican legislation to keep the federal government running – a one-year delay of the federal health-reform law and its requirement for individuals to...
Ever since he decided to expand Medicaid with money from the federal health-reform law, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear has been telling opponents of Obamacare to “Get over it.” Now, as...
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News FRANKFORT, Ky. — A little-known but key part of federal health reform created a new kind of health insurance — a cooperative that is...
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 problem. “America’s lockups are its new asylums,” Gary...
The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday’s opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under the federal health reform law. “Obamacare” has been politicized...
Kentucky has one of the nation’s highest rates of diabetes, but half the diabetics in rural Kentucky don’t have annual eye exams – even though nearly 30 percent of diabetics over 40...