Medicaid Expansion – Kentucky

Feds, advocates question Bevin health changes, By Deborah Yetter, July 26, 2016, Louisville Courier-Journal: “A coalition of health advocacy groups has blasted Gov. Matt Bevin’s plan to restructure the state Medicaid plan ‘as a giant step backward for Kentucky.’  ‘This plan threatens to undermine the health and economic gains we have made in the past two years,’ said the written comments filed last week by Kentucky Voices for Health, a coalition of about 200 groups and individuals.  By Aug. 1, officials with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services plan to submit to federal officials Bevin’s proposal to scale back the Medicaid expansion that added 440,000 low-income Kentuckians to the government health plan for the poor…”