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Jan. 15 last day to purchase insurance for 2025 on Kynect
BY MELISSA PATRICK KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS The last day to enroll in or change plans for federally subsidized health insurance on Kynect, the state-based marketplace, is Jan. 15, for coverage that starts Feb. 1. Already, more than 93,000 Kentuckians have gotten their health coverage through Kynect, well over the nearly 75,000 who signed up for…
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Former Inez lawyer climbed out of alcoholism, launched a recovery boom
BY DEBORAH YETTER KENTUCKY LANTERN LOUISA — Around the office at Addiction Recovery Care, Vanessa Keeton is still known as “Client One” — marking her status as the first client of the first recovery center ARC opened as a group home in Lawrence County. But her official title is vice president of marketing, where she…
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Health insurance for low-wage workers
At least 37,000 Kentuckians will be eligible KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Kentucky is taking advantage of a little-used provision of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to create a health-insurance plan for Kentuckians who make too much to qualify for free Medicaid coverage but not enough to pay for private insurance. The policy, known…