Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) and Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo (D) this week are scheduled to make eight stops on a statewide tour to promote a plan designed to expand health coverage to more children under the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program by 2010, the Kentucky Enquirer reports. Beshear on Wednesday said that it is [...]
The Louisville Courier-Journal on Sunday in the second installment of a three-part series examining health insurance coverage looks at the “plight of young adults.” According to the Courier-Journal, 394,000 people — or between one quarter and one-third — of adults in Kentucky and Indiana ages 20 to 30 are uninsured.
The Courier-Journal notes a number of [...]
The Louisville Courier-Journalon Tuesday examined health care proposals from Kentucky gubernatorialcandidate Steve Beshear (D) and incumbent Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R).According to the Courier-Journal, Fletcher and Beshear%26quot;agree on some health care issues but have different approaches to onepressing problem — extending health coverage to more than half amillion residents who lack it.%26quot;
Fletcher, noting thatthree-quarters of [...]
TheKentucky General Assembly on Wednesday approved a bill (HB 440) that wouldrequire health insurers to allow parents to keep unmarried children on theirhealth plans until age 25, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Parents would have to pay extra to keep adult children ontheir plans. The bill also would require insurers to provide physicians andother health care [...]
Across Kentucky, about 23% ofadults ages 18 to 64 were uninsured during the beginning of this year,according to the Kentucky Health Issues Poll, the NorthernKentucky Enquirer reports. In addition, 31% of adults in the state had been uninsured atsome point in the previous 12 months.
For the poll, researchers surveyed 1,632 adults in Kentucky in January [...]