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...
Health Care
Changes to Medicaid Waiver Request Move Further in the Wrong Direction
Click to view as a PDF. Last August, Kentucky applied to modify its Medicaid program through a request to the federal government to waive certain requirements of the law, known...
Revised Senate Health Repeal Has Same Harmful Impacts
Senate leaders released a “new” version of their bill to replace the Affordable Care Act that fixes none of the original Senate bill’s core problems and makes some of them...
Kentucky Has the Most to Lose from Senate Health Care Repeal Bill
Kentucky would see its uninsured rate more than triple under the proposed Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According to the Urban Institute, Kentucky’s uninsured population would...
Senate Health Care Repeal Bill a Drastic Step Backward for Kentucky’s Health
The Senate released the discussion draft of their bill yesterday to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If passed, the Senate proposal would be a terrible setback for the 1.4...
Statement on Senate Health Repeal Bill
Statement by Executive Director Jason Bailey on Senate health repeal bill: “The Senate promised to start over on health care, but the bill introduced today doubles down on the disastrous...
Medicaid Cuts Would Harm Kentucky’s Kids
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) makes massive cuts to Medicaid, which currently covers 537,736 Kentucky children – 42 percent of kids in the commonwealth when combined with the Kentucky...
Kentuckians Who Lose Coverage from Medicaid Cuts Won’t Have Other Options
Many of Kentucky’s 1.4 million Medicaid enrollees would lose coverage from the radical cuts proposed in the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the proposed Trump Budget. Because of the...
The Health Care Repeal Bill Would Double What Kentucky Must Pay for Medicaid Expansion
The American Health Care Act (AHCA) ends extra federal funding for states that expanded Medicaid eligibility, meaning Kentucky would have to increase its Medicaid expansion funding 111 percent to make...
What Combined Federal Cuts to Medicaid Would Mean for Kentucky
Kentucky’s Medicaid program is potentially facing enormous cuts to federal funding through the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and President Trump’s proposed budget. Nationwide, Medicaid as a whole would undergo...