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Your voice matters! By telling your health care story, you are joining thousands of other Kentuckians who want to have a say in the policy decisions that affect their health. Whether about your experience with Medicaid, surprise medical bills, SNAP, or the Affordable Care Act, KVH invites you to share your story to amplify our impact.

 

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40218, KY
40218

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40204, KY
40204

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I am afraid that it will be a barrier to care for poor Kentuckians.

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42718, KY
42718

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Food or medicine? Which one do I choose? Because my kids eat before I do. Do I have to cancel a doctor’s appointment because I don’t have the gas because I had to use it on medicine? Last week, I was charged $5 for prescriptions and as a result, I was unable to buy bread and milk. I…

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40475, KY
40475

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Will have to start choosing which medicines I can live without. With all my meds it is costing me about $30-$35 a month. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? I receive SSI and live on that a month. My family household has 4 people. We struggle to pay the bills. Now having to figure out…

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41143, KY
41143

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I can’t afford copays on everything. I’m trying to get my disability and I’m trying to survive on 803.00 a month and I have a mortgage payment. It’s crazy!

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41101, KY
41101

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40204, KY
40204

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40517, KY
40517

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40228, KY
40228

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40203, KY
40203

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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41102, KY
41102

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. As a advocate for Domestic Violence Victims women in abusive relationships have the inability to pay copays.

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40511, KY
40511

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. As a case manager, I work very closely with clients who have little to no income. The copays affect them by causing them to make the choice of healthcare versus food or…

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40351, KY
40351

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Co pays will reduce number of families able to enroll, thus reducing care, and putting at risk our hospitals and clinics who do provide care. It will make more folks sicker and…

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40422, KY
40422

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Yes, we live on a small amount of money per month. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? We need help… The gov. is making it harder for us to live Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I just don’t have much money to live…

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40475, KY
40475

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Decreased necessary medical coverage Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Poor people are not the answer to solving state budget issues. They are attacking a class of people who already can not stand on their own Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. My mother…

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40033, KY
40033

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Won’t be able to make it to all mine and the kids Dr. Appointment.

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40351, KY
40351

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? We will probably have to stop going to regular appointments and stop filling most prescriptions. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? If we are on medicaid, it is because we are unable to afford healthcare. Making people who can’t afford healthcare, pay mandatory co-pays, is just going to cause them to stop getting medical treatment….

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40342, KY
40342

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Wont be able to go to doc. I live on an ssi check and do not have money for copays. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40065, KY
40065

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. My spouse is incapiciated because he is mentally unfit to work due to severe mental health disorders. My son is disabled and we are living on little money. We cannot afford these…

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40050, KY
40050

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I will seek medical help less often because I can’t afford it. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? This was made much worse by not telling us but just printing it on our new insurance cards. Dishonest!! Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. we…

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42071, KY
42071

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? If a service or provider isn’t covered by Medicaid, my family’s issues won’t be taken care of until they become emergencies. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. A co-pay (and the uncertainty surrounding its cost differing by provider…

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42718, KY
42718

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I won’t be able to seek medical treatment. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Not able to seek employment . Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Be cause of low income I will not be able to see a doctor if I need to…

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40218, KY
40218

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? We make $450 a month after taxes and deductions, grand total. Yes, $450. I have PTSD, bipolar disorder, general anxiety disorder, ADD, sciatica, and physical disability; without my medications I literally am too afraid to try leave the house, and stairs are impossible. My wife requires hormones and meds for similar mental illness. We also have a six-year-old…

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42701, KY
42701

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It’s me and my disabled son. My ssi is pending so we live on his income. We can’t afford anything, especially health care especially since they cut my sons ssi twice now. He needs his medications because of his mental state. I need health care for numerous health issues with surgeries in my future. Is there anything else…

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42501, KY
42501

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40291, KY
40291

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I feel that less people will receive services because they can’t afford the copays.

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42539, KY
42539

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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41001, KY
41001

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? We will have to be cautious when we go so we have the $ and not short ourselves elsewhere Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Less $ for household expenses

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41046, KY
41046

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. it does not impact my immediate family right now. but it would have impacted my husband’s widowed aunt after her husband died. she passed about 5 years ago but i know there…

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41311, KY
41311

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Very few people are on Medicaid to abuse the system. Most are desperately poor and any extra expense is an unnecessary hardship.

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40744, KY
40744

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I will put off going see Dr when sick which in turn could hurt my health problems.

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40701, KY
40701

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It will take away from our minimum wage salaries, we are struggling to survive now as it is. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? I feel anyone on Medicaid should not have copays because there are times you need to see a doctor and can’t due to lack of funds because of low paying wages…

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40330, KY
40330

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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40962, KY
40962

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I don’t like going to the doctors to begin with, now it will be even less, because the money I spend on copays, could be used on other bills

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41094, KY
41094

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Will have to do without food etc, so we can go to doctor. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Most people on Medicaid are already disabled, weather they are getting a check for disability or not. Most are very very poor. It is very sad government will do to put money in their own pocket….

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40004, KY
40004

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. with co pays less tax payer money will have to be spent, all insurance has co pays, Medicaid should be no different, they already don’t have to pay a monthly premium, they…

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40403, KY
40403

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I can barely survive on my very small income as it is. I get 800.00 per month from child support and alimony. I’m unable to work because of chronic illness, but also…

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41101, KY
41101

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I have 11 meds plus diabetic supplies which may total up to $50

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40503, KY
40503

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. It is a barrier to service. Going to therapy multiple times per week the $4 copay can add up. And taking several mediations even a $1 copay adds up. It may not…

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40220, KY
40220

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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