Questions and Concerns About the Senate’s Performance-Based Funding Proposal
The model for performance-based funding outlined in the Senate budget proposal raises some questions and concerns about how the money...
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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...
House Budget Does Not Restore Many Crucial Services for Vulnerable Kentuckians
The House budget bill builds on Governor Bevin’s proposed funding for KTRS and KERS and rightly restores his cuts to P-12 and higher education. However, it maintains reductions to other...
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 Would Make College More Affordable for Kentuckians
In recent years, Kentucky has had among the largest state budget cuts to higher education in the nation and steepest tuition increases. By ending cuts to state universities and community...
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...
Budget Should Move Forward on Early Childhood, Not Back
Quality early childhood education, through child care and preschool, has been shown to have multiple layers of value: It helps the economy by generating jobs and economic activity, as well...
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...