By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The share of Kentuckians without health insurance continues to drop, and new Medicaid enrollees continue to take advantage of free preventive health services, according...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Former Gov. Steve Beshear sent an open letter to Gov. Matt Bevin and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell May 9, accusing his...
While having health insurance certainly eases the cost burden of health care, nearly one-third of Kentucky adults struggle to pay their medical bills whether they have health insurance or not,...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Regardless of how Kentucky adults describe their health status, almost two-thirds of them said it would be difficult or very difficult to make positive...
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News After an additional 400,000 Kentuckians signed up for Medicaid under health reform in 2014, it wasn’t certain that the Medicaid managed-care system started in...
Susan Zepeda The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, which doesn’t lobby for or against particular legislation or endorse it, came close in a Feb. 11 “guest editorial” from its president...
When it comes to state policies to discourage smoking, Kentuckians are evenly divided on whether to increase the state’s tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1, but support raising...
Part of the reason for news coverage of health topics is to help readers, listeners and viewers live healthier lives. That usually requires a change in their behavior, which doesn’t...
Illustrations are from the report; click on images for larger versions An ongoing study of federal health reform’s impact in Kentucky has found that Medicaid expansion continues to help lower...
The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky invested more than $1.6 million in 2015 with community-based organizations, health-care providers, universities and health advocacy groups across the state, with a focus on...