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- Republicans Question Need For Kynect; Beshear Administration Officials Say Using Federal Insurance Exchange Would Cost More
With the U.S. Supreme Court approving Obamacare subsidies on the federal health-insurance exchange as well as state exchanges, some Republican legislators in Kentucky say the state should close its exchange, branded as Kynect. But officials of Democratic...
- Beshear Issues Executive Order Funding Insurance Exchange With Fees On Insurers, Originally Used To Fund High-risk Pool
Gov. Steve Beshear has filed another executive order to continue the state health-insurance exchange he created under federal health reform, "again sidestepping state lawmakers who have blasted Beshear for moving forward without their approval," Matt...
- Beshear Will Expand Medicaid, Democrat And Republican Say; D Says Governor Believes The State Can Opt Out If It's Not Affordable
State legislators in both parties say they expect Gov. Steve Beshear to expand Medicaid to cover several hundred thousand more Kentuckians who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty rate. Rep. Tom Burch, chairman of the House Health and Welfare...
- Republicans Moving To Gain A Say Over Beshear's Decisions About Insurance Exchange, Medicaid Expansion; Democrat Dismissive
Kentucky Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, left, said yesterday that she would file legislation that would block Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear from setting up a health-insurance exchange or expanding Medicaid coverage...
- Republicans Reject Governor's Executive Order Creating Health Benefits Exchange; Move Is Only Symbolic For Now
Republican legislators voted yesterday against Gov. Steve Beshear's executive order creating the Kentucky Health Benefits Exchange, required by federal health reform. Sen. David Givens of Greensburg offered a motion to the legislative Health and Welfare...
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Beshear's office says he is considering 'various ideas' for financing Ky. insurance exchange, not just a 1% fee on policies
"Gov. Steve Beshear?s administration is reconsidering how to pay for the Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange amid increased criticism from some Republicans in the legislature and a court case challenging a fee Beshear created through executive order," Ryan Alessi reports for cn|2's "Pure Politics," a service of Time Warner Cable.
?Various ideas for a sustainability plan for the exchange are being discussed, and such a plan will be finalized for implementation before current funding expires in 2015,? the governor's office told Alessi. Current funding comes from the federal government.
Beshear's plans have called for the exchange to be financed with a 1 percent fee on policies bought through the exchange, to be paid by insurance companies using it. "But in a statement in response to questions from Pure Politics, the governor?s office said it?s suddenly considering other ways to pay for the exchange," Alessi reports, adding that the office didn't respond to his follow-up question about whether legislative approval would be needed for whatever plan was adopted.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, a Democrat from Prestonsburg, said during a Kentucky Hospital Association panel last month that the fee does not require approval of the General Assembly. Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, told Alessi that it does. Here's a video clip:
?Various ideas for a sustainability plan for the exchange are being discussed, and such a plan will be finalized for implementation before current funding expires in 2015,? the governor's office told Alessi. Current funding comes from the federal government.
Beshear's plans have called for the exchange to be financed with a 1 percent fee on policies bought through the exchange, to be paid by insurance companies using it. "But in a statement in response to questions from Pure Politics, the governor?s office said it?s suddenly considering other ways to pay for the exchange," Alessi reports, adding that the office didn't respond to his follow-up question about whether legislative approval would be needed for whatever plan was adopted.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, a Democrat from Prestonsburg, said during a Kentucky Hospital Association panel last month that the fee does not require approval of the General Assembly. Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, told Alessi that it does. Here's a video clip:
- Republicans Question Need For Kynect; Beshear Administration Officials Say Using Federal Insurance Exchange Would Cost More
With the U.S. Supreme Court approving Obamacare subsidies on the federal health-insurance exchange as well as state exchanges, some Republican legislators in Kentucky say the state should close its exchange, branded as Kynect. But officials of Democratic...
- Beshear Issues Executive Order Funding Insurance Exchange With Fees On Insurers, Originally Used To Fund High-risk Pool
Gov. Steve Beshear has filed another executive order to continue the state health-insurance exchange he created under federal health reform, "again sidestepping state lawmakers who have blasted Beshear for moving forward without their approval," Matt...
- Beshear Will Expand Medicaid, Democrat And Republican Say; D Says Governor Believes The State Can Opt Out If It's Not Affordable
State legislators in both parties say they expect Gov. Steve Beshear to expand Medicaid to cover several hundred thousand more Kentuckians who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty rate. Rep. Tom Burch, chairman of the House Health and Welfare...
- Republicans Moving To Gain A Say Over Beshear's Decisions About Insurance Exchange, Medicaid Expansion; Democrat Dismissive
Kentucky Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Julie Denton, R-Louisville, left, said yesterday that she would file legislation that would block Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear from setting up a health-insurance exchange or expanding Medicaid coverage...
- Republicans Reject Governor's Executive Order Creating Health Benefits Exchange; Move Is Only Symbolic For Now
Republican legislators voted yesterday against Gov. Steve Beshear's executive order creating the Kentucky Health Benefits Exchange, required by federal health reform. Sen. David Givens of Greensburg offered a motion to the legislative Health and Welfare...