Photo: Charles Bertram, Lexington Herald-Leader A pilot program that gave Lexington-area employees money to spend on fresh, local...
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Health Care Renewal Bloggers to Teach Short Course on Why Physicians Do Not Make Rational, Evidence-Based DecisionsHealthy Care Renewal
Health Care Renewal bloggers Dr Roy Poses and Dr Wally Smith will be teaching a short course on Sunday, October 23, 2016, at the annual Nort...
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Report finds race and ethnicity matter when it comes to healthHealthy Care
When it comes to health, your race and ethnicity matter, says a recent Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky report . The report found that m...
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New guidelines recommend no more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day and one sugared drink a week for children and teensHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Children and teens should consume no more than six teaspoons of added sugars a day and drink no...
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. . . B I R T HHealthy Research
Normal blogging has almost resumed but for now here are a few opportunities, some light music, an episode of Betty Boop and some delicious...
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State Supreme Court rejects Lexington abortion clinic's bid to remain open while it challenges Court of Appeals ruling closing itHealthy Care
The only abortion clinic in the eastern half of Kentucky will remain closed while it appeals the state's closure of it to the state Supr...
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Big Obamacare Rate Increases Don't Reflect What People Actually Pay––Wrong! Healthy care policy
How many people in the individual health insurance market don't get a subsidy to pay for their health insurance or wouldn't be eligi...
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Doomed to Repeat It - $27.9 Million/Year Aetna CEO Announced Threatened Pullback from Obamacare "Markets" After Government Launces Anti-Trust Action Against Aetna's Latest MergerHealthy Care Renewal
We do not write about health insurance and managed care as much as we used to. Dysfunction in this area now gets much media attention. ...
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Bevin joins lawsuit that targets federal transgender rule, saying it will force health-care providers to provide 'controversial services'Healthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin has joined a lawsuit that challenges a federal rule guaranteeing transgender peop...
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Bevin submits formal Medicaid proposal to federal government, largely unchanged from the draft he released in JuneHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Gov. Matt Bevin's administration formally submitted its revised Medicaid plan to Health and H...
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Several Kentucky schools start school year with new programs to get their students moving, to improve both learning and healthHealthy Care
As the new school year begins, several Kentucky schools are working to increase student movement, with one elementary school in Louisville i...
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Nursing-home rating tool has added 5 new quality measures; here are tips for choosing a facility, and Kentucky's worst-ratedHealthy Care
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Choosing a nursing home is a daunting task and often done in the middle of a crisis, but it doesn...
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Pharmacy benefit managers secretly decide which prescription drugs are covered or not, critics call for more transparencyHealthy Care
lexisnexis.com Every year, pharmacy benefit managers in the United States decide which prescription drugs are excluded from h...
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Drug prices keep rising, with no end in sightHealthy Care
By Trudy Lieberman Rural Health News Service Recently a tweet from Lauren Sausser, a fine health reporter I know in South Carolina, caugh...
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Report finds foundation initiative to help seven Ky. communities grow healthy children is making progress, with goal of replicationHealthy Care
The seven local coalitions that got Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky grants to keep children from developing chronic diseases as they gro...
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Former director of UK medical foundation says it's 'gone beyond its scope' but UK officials say it's helped them do much goodHealthy Care
A foundation that the University of Kentucky created to supplement pay for physicians has "gone beyond its scope," its former dir...
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Nonprofit groups question Bevin's plan to require 'volunteer' work from able-bodied adults who aren't primary caregiversHealthy Care
Gov. Matt Bevin's plan to require volunteer work from unemployed, able-bodied Medicaid members isn't sitting well with the Kentucky ...
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