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- Ky. Neck-and-neck With Ark. For Largest Drop In Percentage Of Uninsured; Kynect And Medicaid Expansion Make The Difference
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is finally near the top of a good list about health. It's neck-and-neck with Arkansas for the greatest drop in the percentage of uninsured adults since the federal health-care reform law's requirement...
- Safety-net Hospitals, Haven For The Uninsured, Are Seeing More Covered Patients Since The Expansion Of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hospitals that most often treat the poor and uninsured are seeing fewer uninsured patients since the new health law's expansion of Medicaid, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News. Kentucky's...
- Poll Finds That 79 Percent Of Kentuckians, Including 60 Percent Of Republicans, Support Beshear's Expansion Of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians strongly support Gov. Steve Beshear's decision to make hundreds of thousands more of them eligible for Medicaid under the federal health-reform law, according to a statewide poll taken...
- Feds Tell States It's All Or Nothing On Medicaid Expansion; Washington Post Map Shows Ky. Is Only State 'leaning' Toward It
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above the poverty line, to be funded with generous federal subsidies, one of the first...
- Who Is On Medicaid Already? Not All Poor Kentuckians, Foundation President Says On Op-ed Distributed To Kentucky Newspapers
By Susan Zepeda President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act, states have many factors to weigh. Importantly, SCOTUS affirmed the right of states to opt...
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If Kentucky expands Medicaid, no other state would have a larger percentage drop in the uninsured, Kaiser Commission says
"Kentucky will benefit most from the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured," Lorie Hailey writes for The Lane Report, a Lexington-based business publication.
The law calls for expanding Medicaid to people who earn less than 133 percent of the poverty threshold, or 138 percent if a fudge factor is included. If Kentucky accepted the expansion, its number of uninsured adults under the 133 percent line would decrease 57.1 percent, more than any other state, the commission says, based on 2010 data.
From 2014 to 2019, the commission reports that the federal government?s spending on Medicaid in Kentucky will be $11.8 billion, while the state will spend $515 million," Hailey reports. From 2014 to 2016, the federal government would pay the entire cost of the expansion; after that, the state would have to pay 10 percent. The normal Medicaid funding formula is 30 percent state, 70 percent federal.
For the Kaiser news release, click here. For the full report, go here. An executive summary is here.
The law calls for expanding Medicaid to people who earn less than 133 percent of the poverty threshold, or 138 percent if a fudge factor is included. If Kentucky accepted the expansion, its number of uninsured adults under the 133 percent line would decrease 57.1 percent, more than any other state, the commission says, based on 2010 data.
From 2014 to 2019, the commission reports that the federal government?s spending on Medicaid in Kentucky will be $11.8 billion, while the state will spend $515 million," Hailey reports. From 2014 to 2016, the federal government would pay the entire cost of the expansion; after that, the state would have to pay 10 percent. The normal Medicaid funding formula is 30 percent state, 70 percent federal.
For the Kaiser news release, click here. For the full report, go here. An executive summary is here.
- Ky. Neck-and-neck With Ark. For Largest Drop In Percentage Of Uninsured; Kynect And Medicaid Expansion Make The Difference
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky is finally near the top of a good list about health. It's neck-and-neck with Arkansas for the greatest drop in the percentage of uninsured adults since the federal health-care reform law's requirement...
- Safety-net Hospitals, Haven For The Uninsured, Are Seeing More Covered Patients Since The Expansion Of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Hospitals that most often treat the poor and uninsured are seeing fewer uninsured patients since the new health law's expansion of Medicaid, Phil Galewitz reports for Kaiser Health News. Kentucky's...
- Poll Finds That 79 Percent Of Kentuckians, Including 60 Percent Of Republicans, Support Beshear's Expansion Of Medicaid
By Melissa Patrick and Al Cross Kentucky Health News Kentuckians strongly support Gov. Steve Beshear's decision to make hundreds of thousands more of them eligible for Medicaid under the federal health-reform law, according to a statewide poll taken...
- Feds Tell States It's All Or Nothing On Medicaid Expansion; Washington Post Map Shows Ky. Is Only State 'leaning' Toward It
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News When the Supreme Court upheld federal health reform but said states could opt out of the expansion of Medicaid to people with incomes above the poverty line, to be funded with generous federal subsidies, one of the first...
- Who Is On Medicaid Already? Not All Poor Kentuckians, Foundation President Says On Op-ed Distributed To Kentucky Newspapers
By Susan Zepeda President and CEO, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act, states have many factors to weigh. Importantly, SCOTUS affirmed the right of states to opt...