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

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

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

Medicaid expansion has been more popular than expected, but that raises a question of whether it will really pay for itself

Kentucky officials say the state’s Medicaid expansion under the federal health-reform law has enrolled more residents and created more jobs ...

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

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

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

Study shows Kentucky among national leaders in reducing uninsured percentage because of federal health reform

The percentage of adults under the age of 65 who do not have health insurance decreased by double digits in approximately half of Kentucky...

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

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

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

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

Free-standing emergency departments could be the solution to keeping hospital services in rural areas

The tribulations of rural hospitals in Georgia, and the response, could signal a new direction for saving such facilities. Four rural hospit...

Claims that health-reform law is putting Kentuckians out of work don't hold up to scrutiny, economic experts say

"Key Republicans running for election Nov. 4 say the federal Affordable Care Act is putting Kentuckians out of work, but employment dat...

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

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

State won't estimate cost of greater-than-expected Medicaid expansion for 'a few additional months' – after Nov. election

By Al Cross Kentucky Health News The Republican-controlled state Senate's budget committee chair wants to know how much Democratic Gov. ...

Mental-health coverage now required, but access is limited; Medicaid share of all new Ky. enrollments is 85 percent

More people in Kentucky and the nation have access to mental-health care than ever, because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac...

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

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

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

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: State health commissioner sees 'stars aligned' for Kentucky to finally get healthier

Health Commissioner Stephanie Mayfield Gibson This is the third in a series of stories about four high-ranking female state officials who ha...

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

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

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