
What We're Reading: Fight Brewing Over Future of Kentucky Exchange
What we're reading, February 12, 2016: the former Kentucky governor is looking to block the current governor's plans to dismantle Kynect; Senator Orrin Hatch speaks out against Medicare negotiation of drug prices; and the link between Zika and microcephaly is growing stronger.
In Kentucky, the former governor, Steve Beshear, is launching an effort to thwart the efforts of the new Republican governor, Matt Bevin, who is starting the process to dismantle the state’s health insurance exchange, Kynect. Beshear announced that an online campaign will educate voters about what is happening to healthcare in Kentucky,
While some presidential hopefuls, like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump, are calling for Medicare to have the ability to negotiate drug prices, Senator Orrin Hatch is firmly against it, noting that Medicare negotiation wouldn’t be “a big saver.”
The link between the Zika virus and microcephaly is growing stronger, CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Studies of babies that died within 24 hours found they had microcephaly,
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