Kentucky struggles to save or dump insurance reforms

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Kentucky authorities are debating whether to try to salvage the state's healthcare reform law or scrap some of its provisions. The primary problem is that 42 insurers have fled the Kentucky market, rather than follow state requirements to sell policies to individuals at controlled prices. Governor Paul Patton is reportedly considering replacing the price control system with a subsidized risk pool.

Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers, Hospital and medical service plans, Medical Care Insurance, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Programs-State, Laws, regulations and rules, Prices and rates, Social policy, Political aspects, Health insurance, Health policy, Health care reform, Health insurance industry, Kentucky

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Medicaid program put on ice: Illinois halts move to mandatory managed care; HMOs left scrambling

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Family First, a Medicaid-only health maintenance organization created by the University of Chicago Hospitals, is foundering due to lack of enrollees. It was designed to accommodate more than 500,000 recipients in anticipation of a mandatory shift to managed care. When Illinois officials suspended the shift, total enrollees numbered just 17,000 - too few to support the HMO.

Management, Family First

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