Report Explores Contributions of Refugees to Kentucky and the U.S.
A recent report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) shows Kentucky is home to refugee populations that rank our...
Research
Proposed Medicaid Waiver Would Reduce Coverage and Move Kentucky Backward on Health Progress
To view KCEP's comments for the federal comment period, click here. To view this brief in PDF form, click here. Kentucky is applying to modify its Medicaid program through a...
Performance Funding in Kentucky Should Promote Successful Outcomes for All Students
To view this brief in PDF form, click here. A work group has been tasked with developing a model of performance-based funding for Kentucky’s public postsecondary institutions in the coming...
Five Takeaways from Kentucky’s Year-End Revenue Results
Revenue receipts are in for June 2016, the final month of Kentucky’s last Fiscal Year (FY), showing modestly strong General Fund growth of 3.7 percent since 2015. Here are five...
Address Declining Workforce through Job Creation and Work Supports
The administration’s proposal to change Medicaid is framed around increasing workforce participation — making it harder for people to get public benefits, it is assumed, will somehow make them more...
Vision Benefits Critical to Health of Kentuckians
An element in the governor’s proposed changes to Medicaid would do away with vision benefits for adults. But the health consequences of eliminating the benefit can be significant. The Centers...
Things to Keep in Mind as Public Hearings on Medicaid Proposal Begin Today
The next step in the governor’s 1115 Medicaid waiver proposal is for the state to consider public comments, before submitting the final proposal. With the first of the three public...
Approach to Medicaid Should Reflect Realities Facing Low-Income Kentuckians
Kentucky’s Medicaid waiver proposal frames the issue of health coverage for low-income Kentuckians largely as a problem of Medicaid participants’ lack of understanding about private insurance and failure to engage...
Eliminating Medicaid Dental Coverage Would Set Kentucky Back
The proposed changes to Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion include the elimination of dental coverage from the package of benefits for adults. Reducing access to dental care would likely lead to other,...
Waiver Proposal Says Cost Savings Come from Covering Fewer People
The Medicaid waiver proposal the administration has drafted claims the changes will save $2.2 billion over the first 5 years of the program. But the data shows those savings would...