Events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism about health care and health in Kentucky
Tom Stephens —– By Tom Stephens Executive Director, Kentucky Association of Health Care Plans Pocketbook issues were front and center in this most recent session of the Kentucky General Assembly...
Linda Blackford —– OPINION By Linda Blackford Lexington Herald-Leader If you vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson, you’re “pro-pedophile,” according to QAnon darling Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, and if you talk...
Photo illustration from Dreamstime —– This opinion was originally published in the Lexington Herald-Leader. By Linda Blackford Herald-Leader Opinion Editor Why bother writing about abortion access in Kentucky? The die is cast, as...
Dean Donna Arnett, Ph.D. —– By Grace Colville UKNow, University of Kentucky Living in a pandemic has been an adjustment for everyone. Public health plays a larger role in the...
The late Carol Barr with her husband and daughters Eleanor and Mary Clay. —– By U.S. Rep. Andy Barr Though every holiday season without my wife Carol will be difficult,...
Kevin Kavanagh, M.D. —– By Kevin Kavanagh Recently Medicare announced a 14.5% increase in Part B premiums, primarily driven by rising health-care costs and utilization during the pandemic. Our inability to abide by...
Joe Namath, in image from Medicare Advantage TV commercial aired in Fall 2020 —– By Trudy Lieberman It seems nothing ever changes when it comes to hawking insurance to fill...
Waiting in an emergency department (RogerStanmore.com) —– Emergency rooms across the country are overrun, largely due to Covid-19 and other respiratory diseases, and people who go to ERs face long wait...
The Press spotlighted the Covid-19 deaths of a local couple. —– Many Kentucky newspapers are making extra efforts to increase vaccination against the coronavirus, by fighting misinformation with the facts,...
By Al Cross Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Ky. Millions of Americans say they have decided not to get vaccinated to protect themselves, their families...