Medicaid Expansion Allows Kentuckians to Engage their Health, Barriers Make It Harder
We all want to live in a thriving community where everyone has the chance to succeed. The building blocks of...
Proposed Medicaid Waiver Would Reduce Coverage and Move Kentucky Backward on Health Progress
To view KCEP's comments for the federal comment period, click here. To view this brief in PDF form, click here. Kentucky is applying to modify its Medicaid program through a...
Vision Benefits Critical to Health of Kentuckians
An element in the governor’s proposed changes to Medicaid would do away with vision benefits for adults. But the health consequences of eliminating the benefit can be significant. The Centers...
Eliminating Medicaid Dental Coverage Would Set Kentucky Back
The proposed changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion include the elimination of dental coverage from the package of benefits for adults. Reducing access to dental care would likely lead to other,...
How Income Inequality Looks Across Kentucky Counties
The average income of the top 1 percent of Kentuckians is 16.6 times greater the average income of everyone else in the state according to a new report by the...
Federal Payday Lending Rule a Win for Kentuckians
To read KCEP's submitted comments on the rule, click here. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its long awaited proposed rule to reign in many abusive practices of payday...
Report Points Out Successes with Kentucky’s Preschool Program and Progress to be Made
Kentucky has made strides over the last few decades to expand access to quality public preschool. The recent State of Preschool 2015 report points out where Kentucky has made progress...
Rural Kentucky Population Continues Decline While Urban and Suburban Areas Grow
Recently released population estimates from the Census show that, over the last five years, Kentucky continues to urbanize. Rural eastern and western counties’ populations have dropped while the “golden triangle”...
What Are Medicaid Waivers?
Kentucky has had great success in reducing the number of people who are uninsured since it expanded Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act. Since that time, Governor Bevin has...
Child Care Assistance and Preschool Improved in Budget Agreement
The two-year budget agreement now being considered by Governor Bevin made incremental but substantial changes to the state’s two main investments in early childhood care and education (ECCE). The state’s...