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Kentucky Will Start Providing 10,000 More New Mothers with a Year of Postpartum Medicaid Coverage

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just approved a plan to allow Kentuckians who have recently given birth...

Dustin Pugel | May 26, 2022

Op-Ed

Coalition Letter: Kentucky General Assembly Must Use Special Session to Protect the Health of Kentuckians, Our Workforce and Our Children’s Education

A coalition of Kentucky organizations sent this letter to the Kentucky General Assembly on September 3, and many new signatories were added in an updated letter (available as a PDF...

admin | September 3, 2021

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Medicaid Filled the COVID Coverage Gap

Last year when COVID-19 cases were escalating and the bottom fell out of the economy, hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians lost work. For many, this meant losing their health insurance...

Dustin Pugel and Kelly Taulbee | June 29, 2021

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Analysis

The 2021 Legislative Session Health Care Wrap Up: Steps in the Right Direction

The 2021 General Assembly passed several measures that will improve the affordability and accessibility of health care in the commonwealth. These improvements come amidst the worst public health crisis in...

Dustin Pugel | April 22, 2021

Insulin Costs on High Deductible Health Plans

Analysis

Bills Capping Insulin Prices Could Help Many Kentuckians with Diabetes, Especially Those Who Struggle to Pay

House Bill (HB) 95 was signed by the governor and will provide much-needed help to reduce insulin costs for some of the 474,456 Kentuckians with diabetes, roughly 1 in 7...

Dustin Pugel | January 27, 2021

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Op-Ed

Kentucky Lives and Livelihoods Are on the Line with Supreme Court Challenge to ACA

Health insurance coverage for over half a million Kentuckians, and the protections for 2 million Kentuckians with preexisting conditions, will once again be on the line when the U.S. Supreme...

Dustin Pugel | October 20, 2020

Analysis

Kentucky Has Much to Lose if Supreme Court Strikes Down the Affordable Care Act

Kentucky has greatly benefitted from the 2010 passage of the federal Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act (ACA). Thanks to the ACA, we were among states with the largest declines...

Dustin Pugel | October 14, 2020

Op-Ed

An Equity-Focused Pandemic Policy Response Helps Us All

Acknowledging the disparate infection and death rates for Black Kentuckians from the COVID-19 pandemic, last week Governor Andy Beshear committed to ensuring that all Black Kentuckians have health coverage. The...

Anna Baumann and Dustin Pugel | June 18, 2020

Analysis

Covering All Uninsured Black Kentuckians Is Crucial to Achieving Universal Coverage

Black Kentuckians have had higher rates of infection and death from COVID-19 due to disparities in health caused by historical inequities in wages, the justice system, education, housing, health care...

Dustin Pugel | June 17, 2020

Analysis

What’s in the HEROES Act for Kentucky

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the HEROES Act, a bill that would provide the kind of substantial economic relief Kentucky and other states need in the face of...

Dustin Pugel and Jason Bailey | May 22, 2020

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Health Care News

1 Special Open Enrollment Period for Health Insurance Extended to Aug. 15; New Rules Expand Who Qualifies

2 Special COVID-19 Health Insurance Enrollment Period Begins; Kyians Have Until May 15 to Choose a Plan

3 KY Faces a Terrible COVID Christmas, Scary New Year. But ‘Freedom Fighters’ Bury Their Heads.

4 What Striking Down the ACA Would Mean in Kentucky

5 U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Future of Affordable Care Act

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