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LEO Weekly: Medicaid Expansion Leads To Booming Reimbursements, Plunging Uninsured Rate In Kentucky
Kentucky’s Department of Medicaid Services has also provided this map that shows how the uninsured rate has plummeted within each county since 2012, assuming that 75 percent of Kynect enrollees did not previously have insurance (as indicated in their Kynect application): While this drop is staggering through the state, it is most pronounced in the four eastern Kentucky counties of Harlan, Letcher, Leslie and Perry, who went from 17-20 percent uninsured to less than 5 percent. These four counties went from some of the highest uninsured rates to the lowest in the entire state. Thanks, Obama.
While rural hospitals in Kentucky still face unique challenges that must be addressed, including how well Medicaid managed care is able to meet the increased demand for providers, the rosy estimates given by Gov. Beshear last year on the effects of embracing the Affordable Care Act appear to be coming to fruition. The question still remains whether Kentucky’s legislature will decide to continue these efforts next year, or whether a possible new Republican majority in the state House will decide to roll back the clock.
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Mary Meehan: Affordable Care Act Refunds Due From Four Kentucky Insurers
Kentucky families will receive $6.2 million in refunds, an average of $43 per family, under a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as the 80/20 rule. The refunds announced Thursday by the federal government are the result of the rule requiring insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of the money paid in premiums on patient care. If the companies don’t reach that amount with spending on bonuses or red tape, it must be refunded to their customers.
According to a news release from the federal Department of Health & Human Services, consumers nationwide will receive $330 million. Four Kentucky health insurance plans will refund money. Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky had by far the largest refund at $4.4 million. Humana Health Plan was at $766,295, Golden Rule Insurance Co., $342,336, and Time Insurance Co., $333,096.
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❤ ❤ ❤ Nerdy's Heath Care Posts.
Keeping America Strong, Healthy and Alive. Thanks pres Obama for ACA, aka, ObamaCares!
Congrats on 1st Nena!
Yet another superb #ObamaCare post by NW!!!! Thank you
Thanks, Bob.
😉
Thanks, Nena.
ACA: a great jobs program with the product being healthy Americans.
Well hello there.
LL, keep safe in your area as well. The weather patterns are very strange where I am also. HZ
You know how starved we are for rain? When it started pouring yesterday me and the missus rushed out to sit on our front porch and watch it fall.
We do that here, too. Big deal
We have a chance of rain today as well. Wheeeee.
Yes, we need it badly. I love the rain as long as I do not have to drive. Enjoy and be safe. HZ
Hi desertflower. I watched the video you provided and tied that 2012 speech to PBO and what is happening today. Peled is an awesome truthteller and I’d love to know if he sees PBO more clearly now than he did then.
If anyone thinks more people are interested in this please bring video and comment over.
Didn’t rain a drop here, not even a threat of rain.
weather.com forecasts 0% rain here, northwest of y’all.
Since you’re closer to Venice beach, I’d be careful of unexpected lightning.
We may be used to earthquakes here, but not T-storms.
I’ve lived in Ventura county for more than 30 years, and we’ve had 10 or less T-storms during that time, and when they occur they’re almost always at night.
Cheat.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{ Oh, Chips. Who me? I am taking my handsome Danny for the week then.}}}}}}}}}}}}}}HZ
I’m emailing him to you RIGHT now HZ!!!! 🙂
I love you Chip!!!! {{{{{{Chips}}}}}}HZ
I owe my success to clean living.
Are you suggesting I am the Lance Armstrong of TOD?!1!?!
Welllllllll… no, of course not. 😆
Hmm. Liken my FURSTS to his, Mister, and I’ll lock you in a darkened room with Kajagoogoo playing on a loop.
I ❤ Limahl *dreamy eyes*
You’re weird. You know that?
(I always loved his lickle feet).
I have a confession to make: I chortled throughout the entire “Behind the Music” doc on Kajagoogoo.
Was that the one where Limahl appeared to regard himself as a cross between Elvis, Dylan, Bowie and Marvin Gaye?
Yes. Hence my hearty guffaws.
Who are you and what have you done with our LL?
Good question 57, LL is super weird today.
Clean living and whatnot. Please.
(I know, right? 🙄 )
Hey, Chips, is it Friday yet?
I actually had to check top right on my ‘puter because I wasn’t sure 57, so I can confirm, sadly, it’s not 🙂
damn………
When I rule the world 57, every day will be Friday – promise.
Chipsticks for Ruler of the World!!!!!!!!
It’ll be quite a popular part of my manifesto 57 – that and free cheesy puffs for life. I’m feeling confident.
A winning platform, to be sure.
That’s before even mentioning the banning of gyms, Mondays and non-dog-lovers.
Good Morning, Nerdy W. {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{ TY for all of the great work you do for our TOD family daily. Love you dearly, Nerdy. W. }}}}}}}}}}}}}}HZ
Thanks so mich, HZ. Wishing you a great day.
THE most awesome of news, that Kentucky map is just pure joy. Thank you, thank you, thank you Nerdy!!!!
It sure is Chips. Thanks NW for all of this good ACA information. I like the idea of Josh using the chart to illustrate the good Medicare information. I wish that they would show charts more often at the pressers.
DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have always wanted them to do that. FACTS in black and white, so to speak.
You’re welcome, COS.
This is President Obama working behind the scene….while he carries the burden of the entire world:-)
LOVE!!!!!!!!!!
Sudanese Christian Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag (R) is assisted by Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli (L) as she arrives with her children Maya and Martin, at Ciampino airport in Rome on July 24, 2014 (AFP Photo/)
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
July 24 2014
Statement by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice on Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag
The United States is delighted that Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag is now safe and free and will soon be traveling to the United States. For months, Americans of all faiths kept Ms. Ishag in their thoughts and prayers as Sudanese authorities sentenced her to death for the alleged crime of apostasy. Today, she and her family have left Sudan on their journey to freedom. Her departure with her immediate family—including her infant daughter, born in custody—is a testament to her unyielding faith and the support she received from friends and allies, including our Embassy in Khartoum and the broader US government.
On behalf of the American people, I am proud to celebrate the arrival of Ms. Ishag and her family in Rome. We look forward to the day when they arrive in America. In addition to heralding the tireless efforts of my U.S. government colleagues to ensure her safety, I also want to extend my profound thanks to the Italian Government for its dedicated efforts on their behalf. Ms. Ishag’s freedom, while meaningful in its own right, also serves as a reminder that all countries, including Sudan, must uphold the universal right to freedom of religion. The United States has and will continue to support those denied this freedom, drawing strength from Ms. Ishag’s example.
Her father filed a lawsuit in Sudanese court to have her marriage annulled.
Good for him:-)
Nooo, her marriage to her Christian husband. That marriage is what brought everything to a head.
Oh! I misunderstood you sorry:-(
No worries!
I am so glad that she’s headed to the US after her trip to Roma.
I am sure that State Dept. has issued an asylum for her stay..I sure hope so:-)
I’m sure it has, as she’s being persecuted for her religion. The question is, did her husband escape as well? I haven’t read about that.
Me neither LL. All I read was, she went to Roma with her 2 kids..no mention of her husband.
but PBO is not doing enough to save Christians according the rwnjs on faux noise.
Jobs report this Friday?
Posted last week:
What got into Mark Knoller. A positive tweet for a change.
#EradicatingInequality
posted this late last night …. our President, in so many ways, has already reduced inequality in America and the world. #ObamaCare & the YALI Network are two of the many ways that he has done so.
#TrustBarack
#OWNthe114th
Does this info that chips provided help Grimes? Also, is she running for it or against it?
Bc if you listen to chuck Todd this morning she’s doomed, doomed I tells ya.
With figures like these, it’s about time Grimes embraced Obamacare 😉
OMG…..
Wolf Blitzer is going to report from inside the Hamas tunnels.
Once again…CNN wallows at the bottom of the barrel.
FFS …….
CNN and like much of the rest of mainstream media is still engaged in their propaganda machine. It’s Iraq all over again.
Jeff, i don’t know if you have any patience or interest left but the “why is AIPAC so powerful question” gets answered at least in part on a video Desertflower provided on the previous thread.
Short answer connects Iran Threat with bogus Israeli propaganda used to divert from actual israeli agenda. land land all the land. No palestinians whatsoever.
Objectors here or in israel are labled anti-semitic shut up and shut down, and until PBO that was how the matter stood for years.
Now that US has started to dismantle unwarranted fears of Iran, Israel is freaking out. It may get worse before it gets better but someday there will be change for the better.
Oh my lord, what a choad. Wolf Blitzer being Wolf Blitzery.
If I was walled into a camp, I’d dig tunnels to so I could get water and food.
Agreed. I was more mocking Wolf the ambulance chaser. “Ooooo, look, scary tunnels.”
Uh huh. Me, too.
Would it be wrong to say I hope he gets trapped in there and never emerges?
very wrong, but who am i to judge?
🙂 I repent! Ish.
I thought it but I didn’t say it
Hmm?
Wolf never went down to US borders to walk through many Tunnels built from Mexico. Anderson Cooper and a few others on CNN have. But Wolf, a former Jerusalem Post reporter is Never asked to check his bias. There was a guy many weeks ago, trapped in between walls. Wolf? Made made walls can collapse.
I am so happy that the VA bill will be signed and that the transportaion money was extended, even if briefly.
The ACA and economy numbers are thrilling.
Medicare solvent until 2030.
is there no end to the goodness coming out of our administration???
No wonder the Corporate Overlords want to keep The President off the TV.
In our household today, we were all discussing the potential threat of Ebola. It used to be found mostly in Central African Continent. These past weeks, Ivory Coast, Liberia, a case now in Nigeria and in another West African Nation……then the case with the 33 yrs old American Doctor.
Just too sad.
Keep this US aid workers there , sorry to say. Don’t want to spread that disease here.
It looks like Israel and US relations are frayed big time. The US is PISSED at the way Israel has treated Kerry and Israel is angry how Kerry has supposedly wronged them for trying to stop their ethnic cleansing.
Please let this fracture the ‘relationship’.
As I’ve posted too many times already, the US/Iran harmony pretty much showed us what is happening and what is going to happen next.
The complexity of all these relations is mind-boggling Vicki, but the warming of relations with Rouhani sure sent Netanyahu over the edge.
Anger and offense is all israel has.
This why I think Bibi is getting advice from republicans in this country.
Not a matter of opinion, Jovie. Bibi is working with Frank Luntz and others.
Heads up:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/07/28/president-obama-awards-the-2013-national-medal-of-arts-and-humanities/