New group announces healthcare tax reform initiative to fund Medicaid expansion
A new group of hospital leaders launched an initiative Wednesday that will seek to encourage Kentucky lawmakers to tackle comprehensive healthcare tax reform in order…
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Kentucky’s legal liability climate leading to higher costs for everyone, lawmakers say
With Kentucky continuing to rank among the worst in the country in terms of legal liability climate, legal liability reforms are at the forefront of…
Partnership between Bevin administration and non-profit to help Medicaid population keep coverage and access to substance use treatment
On Wednesday, Gov. Matt Bevin and the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky announced a partnership to help Kentuckians covered under the state’s Medicaid waiver continue…
Op-Ed: Opioid Crisis: Employment Key to Recovery
By Dave Adkisson, President and CEO of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Kentucky’s business community has become acutely aware over the past year that the…
Increase in cigarette tax has overwhelming support of business community and health experts
The health and revenue advantages to raising the cigarette tax are reasons the Kentucky business community “overwhelmingly” supports the policy, Kentucky Chamber Senior Vice President…
Kentucky’s Medicaid program to see changes after federal government approves Bevin administration’s waiver
More than a year and a half after discussions by the Bevin administration of a Medicaid waiver with new requirements to keep the expanded population…
Business community recommends ways to address opioid crisis in letter to policymakers from five state chambers
Kentucky Chamber of Commerce President Dave Adkisson, along with executives from the Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia chambers of commerce, recently signed on to…
Kentuckians support increase in cigarette tax, new poll shows
A significant majority of Kentucky voters of all party affiliations support raising the state’s cigarette tax by $1 a pack, according to a new poll…
OP-ED: Tax increase on tobacco just adds up
The following is an op-ed written by the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow. The Kentucky Chamber is a member of this coalition and advocates for…
New smoke-free coalition pushing for one dollar increase in cigarette tax
On Wednesday, Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Dave Adkisson stressed the importance of smoke-free legislation in Kentucky at the launch of Coalition for a Smoke-Free…