Kentuckians covered by Medicare have some of the worst health outcomes and access to care in the country, according to a national report released Thursday. The first-of-its-kind report, “State Scorecard on Medicare Performance: How Medicare Is Working for Its Beneficiaries,” from the Commonwealth Fund, places Kentucky as the third-worst state for Medicare performance. Medicare is […]
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How Kentucky’s Republican-led legislature is changing the face of state law
Senate President Robert Stivers sat with reporters over coffee early one recent Tuesday and reminisced about the last time Democrats controlled the Kentucky Senate. It was January 1997 and Stivers, then a 30-something lawyer from Clay County, had just been elected in 1996 for the first time to what was then a Republican Senate minority. […]
