Senate GOP health bill would dramatically roll back Medicaid

Kentucky Health News The health bill that Senate Republicans will unveil Thursday "would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care...

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Medicare-Medicaid agency gives a much more favorable score to the House health bill than the Congressional Budget Office did

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks about the bill as Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others watch. ( CNN image) By Melissa Patrick Ken...

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Post's chief fact-checker gives McConnell an upside-down Pinocchio for a flip-flop the senator won't acknowledge

"It has become a regular feature of the U.S. political system that the politicians in the minority accuse the politicians in power of c...

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Study says health bill passed by the House would cost Kentucky 16,500 jobs in the next decade

By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A study says that if Congress and President Trump were to enact into law the health bill passed by t...

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Trump budget will include big cuts to Medicaid, maybe work rules

The detailed budget that the Trump administration will release Tuesday will contain big cuts to Medicaid, reflecting the approach of the hea...

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Paul tells doctors and officials at Ashland hospital, a beneficiary of Medicaid expansion, that the country can't afford to keep it

Sen. Rand Paul at the hospital. ( Daily Independent photo by Rachel Adkins) The nation can't afford to continue the expansion of Medica...

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Yarmuth says McConnell won't let a health bill get a Senate vote for fear it would backfire on Republican senators

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the U.S. Senate is working on its own health-care bill, but Kentucky's only Democrat in Congress sa...

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At town hall in Benton, U.S. Rep. James Comer defends and explains his vote for House Republican health-care legislation

UPDATE, May 21: The Washington Post 's Chico Harlan has a more detailed report on Comer's town halls in Benton, Albany, Edmonton an...

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UK gets $11.2 million, five-year grant to study links between cancer and obesity, two of Kentucky's biggest health problems

Kentucky leads the nation in some forms of cancer, and is among the leaders in obesity. Is there a connection? The federal government is giv...

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How Medicaid came to cover 1 in 3 people in Ky., 1 in 5 in U.S., and how it could be changed despite health bill's failure

Medicaid is the main reason many more people have health insurance, especially in Kentucky. These New York Times maps are interactive, with ...

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