Former Gov. Beshear continues to haunt Bevin with new video on Benefind
04/04/2016 02:53 PM
Former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear is turning up the heat on the fight over healthcare in Kentucky days after Gov. Matt Bevin and top health officials acknowledged problems in the state’s new health benefits system. On Monday, Beshear led group Save Kentucky Healthcare, launched a web video chiding Bevin’s plans to dismantle kynect, the state’s formal portal to health insurance and expanded Medicaid. The web ad also pointed to problems in Benefind, a new system which is already seeing issues... Read more 
Eastern Kentucky has lost nearly 10,000 coal industry jobs in the past eight years, and the region is in the midst of a conversation about economic transition. Decades ago, the Welsh coalfields underwent a similar evolution. There, in the 1980s, the coal mining areas of Wales collapsed. More than 20,000 people lost their jobs in just five years. But since then, locals have moved the area away from coal, and the region’s economy has rebounded somewhat. A new documentary looks at the Welsh experience and what lessons it could hold for Appalachia. Appalachian State University professor and filmmaker Tom Hansell has spent several years making [...]
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The opioid epidemic was front and center last year, after a small Indiana county had a surge in new HIV cases related to intravenous drug use. As a result, the Indiana State Department declared a public health emergency in Scott County, Indiana, about 35 miles from Louisville. The outbreak was centered in the small town of Austin. In response, the county health department established a needle exchange program. This time last year, WFPL News found Milton Engebretson, an Austin resident tasked with driving his church’s van around town and transporting people to the Community Outreach Center, where they could get tested for HIV, sign [...]
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A broadened smoking ban in Louisville may be the only way to slow the consumption of electronic cigarettes and hookah in the city, which city leaders including the mayor are identifying as a priority. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer last week made a public plea to add the two industries to the current smoking ban, which makes it illegal to smoke in public buildings and places of employment. He said banning electronic cigarettes and hookah from public buildings “is a logical extension of the battle to save lives from the dangers of tobacco.” Fischer is pushing the city’s health department to research the feasibility of a ban. [...]
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