By DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN – Senate Republicans unveiled their long-awaited health care overhaul proposal on Thursday. The Senate bill, called the “Better Care Reconciliation Act,” would repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The broad outlines of it look a lot like the House bill, the American Health Care Act, which was…
Rev. Alan Hoyle, a spokesman for a group of Amish people from Bath Co., defends Amish salve maker Samuel A Girod, who faces federal prison time for selling improperly labeled salve on June 20, 2017, in Frankfort, Ky. Hoyle is not a member of the Amish faith. Jack Brammer [email protected] BY JACK BRAMMER, [email protected] – FRANKFORT — About 50…
by LISA GILLESPIE (KPR) – Republican Senator Rand Paul is slamming the effort by his Kentucky colleague, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Paul said he won’t know how he will vote until the bill is released to legislators later this week. Paul doesn’t believe McConnell will have the votes…
Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission chairman George Troutman said on Wednesday, July 21, 2017, that the panel will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that would let lobbyists give gifts and campaign donations to the lawmakers they’re trying to influence. Jack Brammer [email protected] BY JACK BRAMMER, [email protected] – FRANKFORT — The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission unanimously voted Wednesday to appeal…
By STU JOHNSON – Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin believes workforce development, apprenticeship programs, and dual-credit initiatives are keys to attracting new business to states. The governor appeared on a panel Monday as part of the Select USA Investment Summit in Washington. Bevin told participants that awarding more college degrees isn’t the only way to grow…
BY BETH MUSGRAVE [email protected] – Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear is pledging to fight a proposed reorganization and restructuring by Gov. Matt Bevin of nearly 40 medical and professional oversight boards, which control the licensing of more than 100,000 professionals in Kentucky and investigate complaints against them. Officials with the Kentucky Public Protection Cabinet have…
BY: Thomas Novelly and Allison Ross , The Courier-Journal – Attorney General Andy Beshear and Gov. Matt Bevin clashed Tuesday after Beshear followed through on his threat to challenge the governor’s reorganization of several education boards in court. “The governor’s refusal to rescind or materially alter his unconstitutional executive orders dissolving and reorganizing independent education…
By June Leffler – Kentucky and other Medicaid expansion states are seeing an increase in overall emergency room visits. Still, fewer uninsured people are going to the ER under the Affordable Care Act. In 2014, states with expanded Medicaid access saw an 8.8 percent increase in the share of ER visits covered by Medicaid, according…
BY: Terry DeMio , [email protected] – Kentucky doctors diagnosed more cases of opioid addiction for people privately insured than did doctors in any other state in the nation last year, a new report finds. The report, “America’s Opioid Epidemic: Data on the Privately Insured Population,” gives an indication of how the opioid and heroin epidemic…
BY: BY ALFRED MILLER The State Journal (KPNS) – Capital Plaza redevelopment is about to throw a 385,500-square-foot wrench into one of Franklin County’s biggest industries — office space. Each year, state government pays $15.3 million to lease 1.5 million square feet of office space and 200,000 square feet of storage space from Franklin County…
