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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn rural Kentucky, health-care debate takes back seat as the long-uninsured line up
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But in a state where the rollout has gone smoothly, and in a county that is one of the poorest and unhealthiest in the country, Courtney Lively has been busy signing people up: cashiers from the IGA grocery, clerks from the dollar store, workers from the lock factory, call-center agents, laid-off coal miners, KFC cooks, Chinese green-card holders in town to teach Appalachian students.
Now it was the beginning of another day, and a man Lively would list as Client 375 sat across from her in her office at a health clinic next to a Hardees.
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Yeah, we live on this side of the hill, said Noble, whose family farm had gone under, who lived on food stamps and what his mother could spare, and who was about to hear whether he would have health insurance for the first time in his 60-year-old life.
This is how things are going in Kentucky: As conservatives argued that the new health-care law will wreck the economy, as liberals argued it will save billions, as many Americans raged at losing old health plans and some analysts warned that a disproportionate influx of the sick and the poor could wreck the new health-care model, Lively was telling Noble something he did not expect to hear.
All right, she said. Weve got you eligible for Medicaid.
Places such as Breathitt County, in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky, are driving the states relatively high enrollment figures, which are helping to drive national enrollment figures as the federal health exchange has floundered. In a state where 15 percent of the population, about 640,000 people, are uninsured, 56,422 have signed up for new health-care coverage, with 45,622 of them enrolled in Medicaid and the rest in private health plans, according to figures released by the governors office Friday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-rural-kentucky-health-care-debate-takes-back-seat-as-people-sign-up-for-insurance/2013/11/23/449dc6e0-5465-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
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In rural Kentucky, health-care debate takes back seat as the long-uninsured line up (Original Post)
sheshe2
Nov 2013
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Great article...the one that really got me was "Coronary Valley". OMG. America Returning.
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#2
One of our local drugstore chains now has signs put up they will enroll people.
freshwest
Nov 2013
#4
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)1. excellent
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)2. Great article...the one that really got me was "Coronary Valley". OMG. America Returning.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)3. It is a great article, thank you libdem4life.
The per-capita income in Breathitt is about $15,000, and the rates of diabetes, hypertension and other health problems earned this part of Kentucky the nickname Coronary Valley.
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)4. One of our local drugstore chains now has signs put up they will enroll people.
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)5. Good for your State, freshwest.
The news is getting better everyday for Obamacare. The people that are getting health care for the first time amazing. It is helping those that had insurance, get better coverage for less.
This is indeed a Happy Thanksgiving!
freshwest~