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“We know that when people cannot see or hear well, or have poor oral health, it hinders their ability to seek and maintain a job,” Gov. Beshear said of the expansion for 900,000 Kentuckians.
As initially passed, the ACA was designed to provide universal health care in the U.S.: those with employer-sponsored health insurance would keep their plans, those with middle-income and lacking employer-sponsored health insurance could purchase subsidized insurance via newly established health insurance marketplaces, and those with low-income would be covered by the expansion of Medicaid.
The concern behind the measure, House Bill 408, is that some substance-abuse recovery facilities have recruited clients from Tennessee and other states to come to Kentucky and enroll in Medicaid ...
Medicaid is a government program in the United States that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources. The program is partially funded and primarily managed by state governments, which also have wide latitude in determining eligibility and benefits, but the federal government sets baseline standards for state Medicaid programs and provides a significant ...
When Medicaid was implemented in 1965 it featured an “inmate exclusion policy” that served as a federal prohibition for providing inmates with the health care service. Kentucky prisoners may ...
A 2016 study found that residents of Kentucky and Arkansas, which both expanded Medicaid, were more likely to receive health care services and less likely to incur emergency room costs or have trouble paying their medical bills. Residents of Texas, which did not accept the Medicaid expansion, did not see a similar improvement during the same ...
Republican candidate Daniel Cameron said Wednesday that he would move quickly as Kentucky's governor to revive a push to require some able-bodied adults to work in exchange for health care ...
kynect, formerly and also called the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange, is the health insurance marketplace, previously known as health insurance exchange, in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky, created by then-Governor Steve Beshear in accordance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.