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Kentucky’s Exchange Success Doesn’t Translate To Small Business Participation
Kentucky has run one of the most successful Obamacare individual health insurance exchanges, attracting enough people into private health plans and Medicaid to cut the state’s uninsured rate by half in...
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Kentucky Strategy Will Test Need For State-Run Obamacare Exchanges
Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin’s plan to dismantle the state’s successful health insurance exchange, Kynect, and shift consumers to the federal one would likely have little impact on consumers, health...
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State Obamacare Exchanges ‘Sustainable’ Without Federal Aid, Official Tells...
State insurance exchanges are healthy financially even without the federal funding that ran out this year, a top Obama administration official told a House subcommittee Tuesday. “All states are...
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Kentucky And Feds Near Possible Collision On Altering Medicaid Expansion
Anxiety and suspense are building in Kentucky as a potential clash over the state’s high-achieving Medicaid expansion nears next month between Gov. Matt Bevin and the Obama administration. At issue is...
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In Depressed Rural Kentucky, Worries Grow Over Medicaid
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CMS Chief To Sit Out Watershed Decision On Medicaid Work Mandate In Kentucky
Seema Verma, the former health policy consultant now overseeing Medicare and Medicaid for the Trump administration, will not take part in one of her agency’s most anticipated decisions because of a...
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Sin rechazar el Obamacare, Trump todavía puede desmantelar el Medicaid
Después que el Senado fracasara en su esfuerzo por revocar la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible (ACA), la administración Trump se prepara para usar sus poderes reguladores con el fin de lograr lo que...
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Even Without Congress, Trump Can Still Cut Medicaid Enrollment
After the Senate fell short in its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is poised to use its regulatory powers to accomplish what lawmakers could not: shrink Medicaid....
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Will GOP Pay A Price For Trying To Take Health Care Benefits From Voters?
Tricia Petrucci hasn’t quite reached the point where she regrets her vote for President Donald Trump. It would be understandable if she did, because Trump — and her senator, Senate Majority Leader...
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Trump Administration Clears Way To Force Some Medicaid Enrollees To Work
Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish [UPDATE: This story was updated at 12:18 p.m. ET to include additional comments from...
View ArticleKentucky Is First State Granted Approval For Medicaid Work Requirements
Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish [UPDATE: This story was updated at 3:50 p.m. ET with comments from Kentucky’s governor...
View ArticleTrump’s Work-For-Medicaid Rule Puts Work On States’ Shoulders
Use Our Content This Kaiser Health News story can be republished for free (details). More Stories To Republish The Trump administration’s watershed decision Thursday to allow states to test a work...
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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ What’s Next For The VA?
Julie Rovner Kaiser Health News @jrovner Read Julie's Stories Anna Edney Bloomberg @annaedney Read Anna's Stories Sarah Kliff Vox.com @sarahkliff Read Sarah's Stories Alice Ollstein Talking Points...
View Article5 Things To Know About Medicaid Work Requirements
The Trump administration’s decision in January to give states the power to impose work requirements on Medicaid enrollees faces a federal court hearing Friday. The lawsuit before the U.S. District...
View ArticlePostcard From D.C. Courthouse: Medicaid Work Requirements And Manafort
It’s probably safe to say that the scrum of reporters — noses and lenses pressed up to the glass doors of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., — were not there to cover a...
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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Live From Aspen!
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View ArticleJudge Blocks Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirement
[UPDATED at 9:20 p.m. ET] A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration decision allowing states to force low-income adults to work to qualify for Medicaid. The 60-page ruling, which is...
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Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Whither Work Requirements?
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View Article‘We’re Fighting For Our Lives’: Patients Protest Sky-High Insulin Prices
Angela Lautner knew her thirst was unusual, even for someone directing airplanes, outside in the Memphis summer heat. “We had coolers of Gatorade and water for people to always have access to,”...
View ArticleJudge Vows To Rule On Medicaid Work Requirements By End Of March
The federal judge who shot down a Medicaid work requirement plan last June remained deeply skeptical Thursday of the Trump administration’s renewed strategy to force enrollees to work. U.S. District...
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