Statement on House Passage of Kynect and Medicaid Expansion Bills (HB 5 and 6)
“Today, a majority in the Kentucky House of Representatives took a positive stand for both the health of their people...
Uninsured Costs at U of L Hospital Have Dropped Dramatically Because of Medicaid Expansion and Kynect, But Could Go Up with Changes
Senate leaders have raised a concern about the House’s inclusion of up to $10.5 million in their budget over the biennium to help cover health care costs for the uninsured...
House Should Vote to Keep Kynect and Protect Medicaid Expansion from Harmful Changes
The House has the opportunity this week to pass House bills 5 and 6 and vote to maintain Kentucky's momentum for better health and a stronger economy. House Bill 5...
Why the House Budget Approach Is Better than a Big Set Aside of Idle Funds
The major point of difference between the governor's budget and the House budget concerns the use of idle funds. The governor's plan sets aside $500 million in a new so-called...
House Budget Uses Set-Aside Money to Reduce Cuts and Fully Fund Teachers’ Pensions
To view this in PDF form, click here. The House budget reduces proposed cuts to education and selected other areas and provides additional money to fully fund the actuarially required...
House Minority Budget Doesn’t Put More Money into Education
The House minority budget presented today keeps the governor's proposed deep cuts to education and just makes modifications to how those cuts are implemented. The budget essentially flat-funds the SEEK...
It’s Kentucky’s Lack of Coverage and Poor Health that Are Unsustainable, Not Medicaid
While the administration claims that Kentucky's Medicaid program is “unsustainable,” in fact Medicaid is a big benefit to Kentucky as it fills critical coverage gaps, improves health, injects dollars into...
Kentucky’s Past Shows Public Investment Is Essential to Progress
Kentucky faces a difficult budget challenge, but Governor Bevin's proposal is based on a false assumption: that deeply cutting funding for public investments will make it easier to pay down...
With Medicaid Expansion, Kentucky Healthcare Job Growth Picked Up in 2015
After modest growth in health care and social assistance jobs during the first year of Medicaid expansion, growth picked up at a rapid pace in 2015, according to newly-revised Bureau...
Three Steps to a Better Budget this Session
The General Assembly has less than two months to finalize the next two-year state budget. Although the governor’s budget rightly takes a big step toward fully funding our pension liabilities,...