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Health Care

Analysis

New Short-Term Individual Insurance Plans Would Raise Premiums and Number of Uninsured Kentuckians

Federal officials recently proposed to allow insurance companies to offer health insurance policies that don’t cover much and can last...

Dustin Pugel | March 1, 2018

Report

2 Gen Approach to Kentucky’s Opioid Epidemic Needed

Click here to view a pdf of the brief. As one of the states hardest hit by the national opioid epidemic, Kentucky struggles with high rates of addiction, incarceration, overdose...

Ashley Spalding | February 22, 2018

Analysis

Four New Ways Kentuckians Will Lose Medicaid

Low-income and disabled Kentuckians are currently eligible for a broad range of health care benefits thanks to Medicaid. As long as people earn below a certain annual wage (a little...

Dustin Pugel | January 30, 2018

Analysis

Medicaid Work Requirement Is Misguided and Harmful

With the recent guidance by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on work requirements, it is very likely that Kentucky’s request to implement a “community engagement”...

Dustin Pugel | January 11, 2018

Analysis

Marketplace Signups Robust and Would Likely Be Stronger Without Barriers

Early in 2017, the Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) cut the Healthcare.gov open enrollment period in half, from 14 to 7 weeks. Despite this and other impediments described...

Dustin Pugel | January 8, 2018

Analysis

Medicaid Works for Kentucky

Medicaid provides health care coverage to over 1.4 million Kentuckians. For over 50 years it has helped pregnant women, children, people with disabilities and seniors and in the past 3...

Dustin Pugel | October 3, 2017

Analysis

Cassidy-Graham Bill is Latest Attempt to Unravel Kentucky’s Health Care Gains

The latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as the Cassidy-Graham bill, would cut Kentucky’s funding for low-income health care by $3.1 billion by 2026. That would...

Dustin Pugel | September 15, 2017

Analysis

Ending Cost Sharing Reduction Payments is a Lose-Lose for Kentucky

Since 2014, the federal financial assistance for out-of-pocket health care costs known as Cost Sharing Reductions (CSRs) has been under threat – first from a lawsuit filed by the House...

Dustin Pugel | August 15, 2017

Analysis

Kentuckians Are Concerned About Proposed Changes to Medicaid

Kentucky officials recently asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to change certain parts of their original request to alter the commonwealth’s Medicaid program. These changes would move...

Dustin Pugel | August 9, 2017

Analysis

How Cuts to Federal Non-Defense Discretionary Funding Would Impact Kentucky

When Congress returns from its August break, the House is expected to vote on their plan for 2018 appropriations that includes cuts to non-defense discretionary (NDD) funding, as well as...

Ashley Spalding | August 8, 2017

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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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