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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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42066, KY
42066

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? May not be able to get some of the needed medicines in order to pay Bill’s or not pay Bill’s to get medicine. 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. Will have to either pay bills/buy groceries or go…

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41049, KY
41049

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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40353, KY
40353

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Greatly. Being on disability and a fixed income makes any kind of extra expense very difficult. 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. Affects ability to pay for other needs

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40353, KY
40353

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. Some can’t afford co-pays on a fixed income therefore leaving them to choose to get the help they need or use what money they do have for food or anything else to…

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41168, KY
41168

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. not really affecting any

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40207, KY
40207

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. Patients below poverty level are being denied RX if they don’t have the co-pay. Case managers are seeing this every day. It just leads to ER visits and increases costs. Some have…

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40515, KY
40515

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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42240, KY
42240

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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42001, KY
42001

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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42001, KY
42001

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. Mandatory Copay’s are important on creating parity between Commercial and Medicaid patients. The new copay’s are so low, it should really be raised some. It is a reminder that health care does…

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42450, KY
42450

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Uncertainty of ability to pay Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Extra stress for us not knowing info Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. The ER will be used more as we become sicker. Many will not seek preventative care due to lack of…

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40475, KY
40475

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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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. Likely to postpone medical visit or purchase of medications if don’t have money for copay

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40504, KY
40504

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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40229, KY
40229

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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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. Its really hard when you do not have a lot of money. It may not seem like a lot but it adds up.

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, KY

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Decide between food and medical care Is there anything else you’d like us to know? This should stop. We are poor and cannot pay Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. very hard for us

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41653, KY
41653

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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40202, KY
40202

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It’s going to make balancing bills even harder. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? I was never sent a notice that mandatory copays were going to start. Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. I’ve had to take up collecting change wherever I can get…

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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. Cost us more money, but also make us think about our medical decisions. When it is free we just go all the time even if we don’t need to, because it feels…

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40409, KY
40409

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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41095, KY
41095

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I will not be able to afford doctor appointments or medicine 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 lot of people will not get the health care they deserve because of cost

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40962, KY
40962

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? We are on an extremely tight budget already. We live on my disability pay. My husband is a stay at home dad and my caretaker (I have multiple complex medical problems/disabilities and need help with even the smallest tasks of everyday living). He is diabetic and receives medicaid. He cannot work because he has to care for me…

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, KY

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. They aren’t as bad as my other family’s copays. Very low in comparison. Its fair

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40361, KY
40361

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 waiting for my disability case to be decided on. I can’t work. The only income I have is child support. It’s difficult to make ends meet.

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41095, KY
41095

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Not much money to work with so will have to go without needed services Is there anything else you’d like us to know? No Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Not enough income so would have to go without needed care

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, KY

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Not go 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. Not enough money

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, KY

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? What bills not to pay in order to pay copay Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Co pays are unfair when you dont make hardly anything and struggle to pay your bills already Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Priorities of bills

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41164, KY
41164

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 hurts the people needing help. I was one of those people previously

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, KY

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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40475, KY
40475

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Significantly Is there anything else you’d like us to know? We have chosen to get food and pay bills over medications and considering we both have health issues including diabetes, this is making things rough Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. We cancelled a scheduled follow up…

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40508, KY
40508

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? Some folks don’t have money for copay. So they may not take children or themselves to doctors Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. We are on fixed income. Co pays determine if we go or miss visit.

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42431, KY
42431

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. Needing to go to doctor. Not going because it’s too close to check time..Then needing stinger care or meds because you couldn’t go..

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, KY

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Rationing medicine 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. Inability to pay for copays so I would go with out medicine or seeing a provider for necessary things or when I got or kids got sick

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42240, KY
42240

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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42420, KY
42420

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I will probably forego doctor’s appointments since I have zero income. Recently I was diagnosed with seizures and can’t work. Not can I get on disability because seizures aren’t considered a disability in the traditional sense. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? It’s real great that I have to pay for something that I can’t…

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42024, KY
42024

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Less meds and dr visits. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Those how can’t afford it, could die due to lack of money Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. There are so many people in my community who have multiple health issues and won’t…

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42261, KY
42261

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? May have to forgo some groceries Is there anything else you’d like us to know? These copays do not give dignity to anyone ..It is just a way to take care away from the poorest oof our citizens Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Leaves less for…

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41250, KY
41250

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I have no income. Cannot work for chronic illness and no car. I need life saving medications. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? I get that we are viewed as leeches on the system and should start chipping in. I just hate the thoughts of not affording meds or psych appts. Please tell us how…

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42141, KY
42141

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Probably do without . Is there anything else you’d like us to know? I am afraid I am going to get sick and not be able to seek medical attention. Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Just have to pray we won’t get sick.

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