{"id":1317,"date":"2015-12-02T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2015-12-02T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:15:22","slug":"kentucky-strategy-will-test-need-for-state-run-obamacare-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Strategy Will Test Need For State-Run Obamacare Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin\u2019s plan to dismantle the state\u2019s successful health insurance exchange, Kynect, and shift consumers to the federal one would likely have little impact on consumers, health experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal exchange is a perfectly viable alternative,\u201d said Jon Kingsdale, a Boston health care consultant who formerly led the state agency that started Massachusetts\u2019 exchange in 2006, the model for the federal health law. Consumers on the federal exchange would still be able to shop and enroll in private plans and apply for federal subsidies to lower their costs. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/kentucky-strategy-will-test-need-for-state-run-obamacare-exchanges\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=24213510&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Bb9ai_0Azb7bD2WxFUBoFpjTzmi8L-q8AZGWwJ4dj3cJNnFhwZp71DgBSS642-nG0s7aqiymloDNz4IqKEDwm5ElSJg&amp;_hsmi=24213510\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s \r\n validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News) Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin\u2019s plan to dismantle the state\u2019s successful health insurance exchange,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}