What’s in the Budget Agreement for Health Care and What’s Not?
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services provides health care for Kentuckians in a number of ways, and most funding...
Health Care
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 for just under a year at a time. These Short-Term...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...