KY bill making sweeping changes to Medicaid adds copays (but they’re lower now)
Senate adjusts the bill in response to feedback
Medicare & Medicaid
Interview w/ Alisha Chaffin; ARC Medicaid fraud story; and Quick Hits
Get the details on the Addiction Recovery Centers story
Background on four Medicaid bills
Notes from the Monday meeting of the Medicaid Oversight Advisory Board
House Bill 2 creates new barriers to Medicaid for Kentucky families
It’s a bad bill – and only your calls can stop it.
House passes Medicaid reform bill
HB 2 makes a number of changes, mainly to the Medicaid expansion cohort.
Medicaid copays, audits and more: GOP lawmakers seek to rein in costs, change behavior
HB 2 makes some major changes to health care for Kentuckians on Medicaid
Kentucky Medicaid oversight board finalizes sweeping reform recommendations
“This is a starting point,” one co-chair said as the meeting concluded.
Kentucky Voices for Health’s annual meeting focuses on looming changes to Medicaid program
The GOP’s bill makes significant cuts to Medicaid funding, with ripple effects throughout the health care systems
KY lawmakers say Medicaid’s future weighs on their minds and their constituents’
Tens of thousands of Kentuckians will lose their health insurance with the Trump-GOP budget cuts
Without Medicaid, many rural Americans will die
The attacks on Medicaid aren’t just policy choices — they’re signing people’s death certificates before they ever see a physician.
When the siren stops
If Medicaid is cut, rural hospitals will close – and the effects will be bigger than just the hospital.
KY’s Medicaid ‘unwinding’ puts kids’ coverage at risk
As many as 86,000 Kentucky children could lose their health insurance.
Kentucky Dems launch interactive website attacking the Big Betrayal Bill
With county-level stats of the bill’s destruction
Auditor: KY Medicaid wasted $800 million. Health secretary: report contains ‘significant inaccuracies.’
Stack: Auditor’s report “contains significant inaccuracies, relies heavily on unsubstantiated assumptions, and fails to provide verifiable evidence of any substantial loss of taxpayer funds.”
CBO: Republican megalaw helps earners with high and middle incomes, hurts poorest
Top 10% gain $13,600 a year; bottom 10% lose $1,200 a year.
