More Support for Family Caregivers Good for Seniors and State
Last year Kentucky ranked worst in the nation on the AARP Public Policy Institute’s scorecard on long-term care services and...
Health Care
New Census Data Does Not Reflect Health Insurance Gains Made in 2014, But Shows How Much Kentuckians Needed Coverage
The Census data released today from the American Community Survey (ACS) shows that 616,000 Kentuckians or one in seven residents did not have health insurance in 2013, which is about...
New Health Cooperative Leading Way in Providing Exchange Coverage
Kentucky is continuing to gain national recognition for its success in expanding health insurance coverage, most recently in a Gallup poll showing Kentucky had the second-biggest drop of all states...
New Access to Health Care Will Be an Economic Driver
Good news keeps coming in about Kentucky’s expansion of Medicaid and the launch of Kynect, the state’s health insurance marketplace. It’s clear that coverage is expanding rapidly, the newly-insured are...
Evidence of Benefits of Medicaid Expansion Starting to Come In
Kentucky is starting to see the benefits of its decision to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in dramatic reductions in the number of uninsured across Kentucky counties...
Senate Budget Accepts Affordable Care Act Funds and Draws on Law’s Benefits
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Kentucky passed a hurdle this week when the Senate chose to accept billions of federal dollars in its budget to fund the...
Kentucky Among States with Biggest Coverage Assistance from Health Reform
Kentucky is one of three states in the nation where more than four out of five of the uninsured will be eligible for health coverage assistance under the Affordable Care...
Health Reform Is Increasing Coverage in Kentucky with More Gains Soon to Come
595,000 Kentuckians, or 13.9 percent of the state’s population, had no health insurance in 2012, according to data released today by the Census Bureau. But the new data also show...
Need for Health Care Workers Is an Economic Opportunity
Because the expansion of Medicaid and creation of a state health insurance exchange will provide health coverage to several hundred thousand people, Kentucky will have workforce needs associated with meeting...
Expanding Medicaid Means Improved Health and Quality of Life for Many Kentuckians
Expanding Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 is a key opportunity to improve the health and wellbeing of Kentuckians across the state, and Governor Beshear should be...