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Bluegrass Beacon: Reforms free able-bodied from welfare’s sticky web

Bluegrass Beacon, Economic Revival, Health CareJim WatersJune 14, 2018Clinton-Gingrich welfare reform, Food stamps, Kentucky Medicaid waiver, Welfare-to-workComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Hit drug program’s PAUSE button

Bluegrass Beacon, Regulation, Health CareJim WatersFebruary 16, 2018340B drug program, Charity care, Disproportionate Share Hospitals, Medicaid, Medicare, PAUSE Act, President TrumpComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Reforming Medicaid, tweaking elections and overcoming evil

Bluegrass Beacon, Election, Health CareJim WatersFebruary 11, 2018Gov- Bevin, Kentucky Medicaid waiver, President Trump, Sen- Reggie Thomas, Tracy Tubbs, Voter turnoutComment

Prescription reimbursement policies: Use scalpels, not sledgehammers

Transparency and Accou..., Health CareJim WatersFebruary 7, 2018BIPPS Policy Brief, Independent pharmacists, Pharmacy Benefits Managers, Prescription drug policy, Senate Bill 5 Comments

Kentucky publisher praises Medicaid waiver

Media, News, Health CareJim WatersJanuary 20, 2018Kentucky Medicaid waiver, Publisher Jeff JobeComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Drug pricing: Bustling marketplace or stifling monopoly?

Bluegrass Beacon, Health CareJim WatersDecember 4, 2017Affo0rdable Care Act, CREATES Act, FDA, Generic drugs- Patent laws, Prescription drug pricingComment

Go figure

News, Reduce Government Spen..., Smaller Government, Transparency and Accou..., Health CareRichard InnesDecember 2, 2017Drug Problems, Louisville, Reduce Government SpendingComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Health-care debacle a chance to hit reset button

Health CareAugust 4, 2017Bluegrass Beacon, Competition, Health Savings Account, healthcare, Incentives, Jim Waters, Sen- Rand PaulComment

A Kentucky senator talks Obamacare repeal

Health CareJuly 19, 2017Medicaid, ObamaCare, Rand Paul, Sen- Rand PaulComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Make health care affordable again

Health CareJuly 17, 2017Affordable Care Act, American Health Care Act, Bluegrass Beacon, healthcare, Jim WatersComment

The Bluegrass Institute on Kentucky Tonight—Healthcare

Media, Health CareJune 14, 2017Dr- Cameron S- Schaeffer, Kentucky Tonight, ObamaCare, Obamacare mandatesComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Control costs, make health care great again

Health CareJim WatersApril 7, 2017American Health Care Act, Essential benefits, ObamaCare, Sen- Rand PaulComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Obamacare: Public policy malpractice

Health CareJim WatersMarch 13, 2017Competitive Enterprise Institute, Families USA study, Gov- Steve Beshear, Kaiser calculator, Manhattan Institute Center for Legal Policy, Medicaid expansion, ObamaCare, President TrumpComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Set the table for a school-choice buffet

Education, Media, School Choice, Health CareJim WatersFebruary 3, 2017Bluegrass Beacon, charter schools, Education Savings Accounts, President Trump, right to work, Scholarship Tax Credits, tobaccoComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Required: Full, fast repeal of Obamacare

Health CareJim WatersFebruary 1, 2017Government dependency, Kentucky Medicaid enrollment, ObamaCare, Sen- Mitch McConnellComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Congress should evaporate Obamacare’s ocean

Health CareJim WatersDecember 30, 2016Budge reconciliation, Congress, Obamacare mandates, Rep- Brett Guthrie, Supreme CourtComment

Bluegrass Beacon: Read the side of Obamacare's box

Health CareJim WatersNovember 4, 2016Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansionComment

Bluegrass Beacon - Medicaid reform: Compassionate or cruel?

Regulation, Health CareJim WatersAugust 13, 2016Medicaid expansion, Medicaid funding, ObamaCare Comment

Bluegrass Beacon: Declare independence from dependency!

Health CareJim WatersJuly 16, 2016Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Kentucky HEALTH waiver, Medicaid expansion Comment

Testimony offered to Senate Health and Welfare Committee opposing legislative approval of Kynect and Medicaid expansion

Health CareJim WatersApril 11, 20162016 Legislative testimony, John Garen Ph-D-, Kynect, Medicaid expansion, ObamaCareComment