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...
Health Care
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...