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Primary offers chance to get out and vote
If there is one thing we can all expect in the new few days, it’s that Tuesday’s primary election will come with a paltry turnout of voters. Perry County Clerk Haven King believes that there simply isn’t enough interest in this election to get the voters to the polls come May 22. Despite three important local races on the ballot, we’re inclined to agree with Mr. King. In the November general election of 2011, less than 30 percent of the r...
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Where is the onus to fix managed care?
If there is one thing that last week’s Medicaid debacle between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and a managed care company illustrates, it’s that when it comes to health care, there are no easy answers. But it also showed an unwillingness on the behalf of some officials to admit that there exists a problem with managed care, and then address it. In 2011 Kentucky was faced with a hole in the Medicaid budget. Gov. Steve Beshear opted to plug ...
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Approval of KASPER mandate should be model for rest of nation
It’s not every day that Kentucky can serve as a precedent in terms of good legislation that should well be considered on the national stage. But despite an unnecessary (and expensive) special session of the General Assembly, legislators in Frankfort, as well as Gov. Steve Beshear, should ultimately be commended for approving a measure that will in part mandate prescribers to register with and use the state’s electronic prescription monitori...
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The need to address bullying in schools is local
It was just last week that a mother of a local student stood up at a meeting of the Perry County Board of Education to address an issue obviously weighing heavy in her life: school bullying. According to this mother, her child had been bullied to the point of pleading with the parent to transfer schools. It was also just a few weeks ago when officials at A.B. Combs requested help from local law enforcement to deal with a case of bullying in...
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