Showing posts with label insurance exchange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insurance exchange. Show all posts

If you have a Kynect policy, or are buying one, shop around to get the best deal; prices and tax credits change each year

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Obamacare customers in Kentucky probably need to shop around the Kynect health insurance marketplace if they want to get a better deal this...

Kynect policyholders get premium notices, are urged to check website to see if a better deal is available

thumbnail The 80,000-plus Kentuckians who bought private health insurance during the first open enrollment period under the federal health-reform law ...

Carrie Banahan, director of Kynect, is named one of Governing magazine's nine Public Officials of the Year

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Carrie Banahan, executive director of the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange , has been selected by Governing magazine as one of nine 2014 Pub...

Kynect enrollment for private, subsidized insurance reopens; previous enrollees should check website and re-enroll

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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's second annual open enrollment period has started...

Second round of private insurance enrollment under Obamacare starts Nov. 15; rates estimated to rise an average of 4.6%

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Enrollment reopens Saturday, Nov. 15, for health insurance under the federal health-reform law and the state insurance exchange, known as Ky...

Sen. Mitch McConnell faces diverse pressures on the question of repealing the federal health-reform law

thumbnail Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he still wants to get rid of Obamacare, and the Kentuckian is "under rapidly incre...

Exit poll: Half of voters say Kynect works well, but almost as many say Obamacare went too far; 45% favor pot legalization

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An exit poll of voters in Tuesday's election showed that half of them thought the state's health-insurance exchange, Kynect, is work...

Most Kentuckians who bought health insurance on Kynect will pay higher premiums next year

thumbnail Most premiums for private health insurance purchased through Kentucky's health insurance exchange, Kynect , will increase in 2015. Most ...

In a report for PBS, KET's Renee Shaw looks at the influence of health-care reform on the U.S. Senate race

thumbnail Kentucky is a state "where both the economy and health care poll as high issues and where the state’s exchange under the health care ...

In Senate race, McConnell and Grimes differ on health care

thumbnail By Cheyene Miller University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications                The U.S. Senate race between Republican ...

Kentuckians like Kynect coverage as long as it's not called 'Obamacare,' and some don't like to talk about it

thumbnail By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you -- unless you're talking ab...

Obamacare seems to be no plus for Kentucky Democrats, perhaps mainly because of the word's first three syllables

thumbnail Though the federal health-reform law has helped cover more than half a million Kentuckians and cut the state's uninsured population by h...

Expert says Ky. is one of 13 states where people in individual insurance market are better off than before reform law

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By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Most of the focus on Obamacare has been on people who are no longer uninsured, or those ...

Beshear cites examples of health reform's benefits, while McConnell keeps up criticism, at Farm Bureau's ham breakfast

thumbnail By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear and Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell squared off on health-care reform fo...

Grimes and McConnell lay out differences on health reform

thumbnail By Al Cross and Megan Ingros Kentucky Health News U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell kept attacking federal health-care reform and challenger Alison ...

Women leading Ky. Health: With less than 16 months left, Haynes tries to 'bake in' health reform, managed care, more

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This is the last in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the state's embrace of the Patien...

Women Leading Kentucky Health: Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark is key player in making health-reform law work

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This is the second in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the...

Poll: Kynect considered a success, but voters haven't embraced it, and they still disapprove of the Affordable Care Act

thumbnail By Al Cross Kentucky Health News A new poll again indicates that Kentuckians marginally approve of the state health-insurance exchange creat...

Women Leading Ky. Health: Exchange Director Carrie Banahan says getting people health insurance is highlight of her career

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This is the first in a series, Women Leading Kentucky Health, of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who have guided the ...

Hospitals say too many of the newly insured are using emergency rooms for primary care; state says it's working on the problem

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By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News More people with health insurance, a shortage of primary-care physicians and a steep learning curve ...