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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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42167, KY
42167

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I 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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, 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? No Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community.

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41189, KY
41189

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 0 income.

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42301, KY
42301

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. Hard to pay

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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. Co-pays can be prohibitive to wellness. People who can not afford co-pays will wait to seek healthcare until there is a serious problem that may result in a need for extensive medical…

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40212, KY
40212

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Have to go to less appointments to cut down on costs Is there anything else you’d like us to know? Copays hurt the poor, which are the majority of the population who has medicaid Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Have to cut down on the amount…

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40047, KY
40047

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. People who are eligible for Medicaid are extremely low income or have a catastrophic illness and cannot afford an additional expense. They will have to give up nutrition, heating, etc…necessities!

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42025, KY
42025

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 mom has passed now, but she was so sick in the last year, there’s no way she could have paid that much at each dr. If Medicare is paying, then they…

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40069, KY
40069

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 know people that have a very hard time paying a copay and go without

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41144, KY
41144

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 56 years old, disabled and have no income at all. With what part of $0 am I going to pay a copay?

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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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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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42276, KY
42276

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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40701, KY
40701

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. We already have to stretch every dollar to make make ends meet and feed our children, this will just burden us even more.

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41465, KY
41465

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. Everyone has to do Co pays. Why should Medicaid OR Medicare be any different.. aAfter all, after Co pay you get free health care. Unlike a lot of the general public.

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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. It will keep me from going to the doctor even tho with my chronic illnesses I’m supposed to be seen every 3 months. But if I have to pay Co pays for…

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41222, KY
41222

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. When you have 2 copays at the doctor office and 2 copays at the pharmacy that soon adds up when you are on fixed income some copays are like $25.00 at the…

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41339, KY
41339

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? It will cause us to stretch even more do then we already do just to make it month to month. 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. We will struggle to live each month

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40701, KY
40701

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. Less money for food and utility bills

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, KY

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Bills end up on disconnection or I go without things so everyone has them 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. Less money is less money you have to cut out something somewhere

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40211, KY
40211

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. Less money for other necessities

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41011, KY
41011

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? Reduced and delayed care 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. Make it more difficult for disabled people not yet receiving disability funds to get treatment/help.

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41232, KY
41232

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 currently unemployed and a copay is difficult to come up with.

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40390, KY
40390

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. This cuts into what grocery and gas money I can come up with. I’ll be deciding which medications I can’t do without and what I can manage to drop. I’ll be pushing…

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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. People going to ER

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40337, KY
40337

How do copays affect the decisions you or your family make about your healthcare and your budget? I don’t work I have no money for co pays. My illnesses will affect employment. Is there anything else you’d like us to know? I have asthma, lung nodule, Reactive Airway Disease, GERD, hiatal hernia, overactive bladder, and costocondritis. Please tell us how some or all of these changes affect you, your family, or your community. Won’t get…

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Kenton, KY
41018

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? a more flexible work schedule and FINANCIAL HELP since you shut our country down

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Boyd, KY
41102

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? No visitors to our homes. My parents, myself, my daughter in law and my granddaughter below age of 2 remain #HealthyAtHome. My brother and son practice HealthyAtWork. For others to follow the executive orders and mandates and come together as a state in unity to protect our most vulnerable. Stimulus monies are crucial just to survive for…

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Jefferson, KY
40204

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Stay home. Only see three other people. Beginning to be a bit stir crazy.

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Ohio, KY
42347

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Just started a job 2 weeks ago but I’m only getting 30 hours a week so I’m looking for income based housing which there isn’t enough of. I’m being told it could be 6 months to a year before they might have an apartment. I’m doing my appointments via telehealth and have to plan to around free…

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Ballard, KY
42087

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Financial support from the government like the major corporations have gotten.

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Graves, KY
42066

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Gloves masks dial soap and tissue vitamins food and funds.

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Jefferson, KY
40215

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? A work from home job or unemployment benefits that can cover the costs of essentials.

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Henderson, KY
42420

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? More masks cleaning supplies and transportation Cheaper phone service for those who dont qualify for free gov. Phone & service like I do.

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Fayette, KY
40509

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? Only leave home when absolutely necessary and take all recommended precautions.

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Fayette, KY
40517

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? right now, my son getting Medicaid, and some kind of resolution in KY UI

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Kenton, KY
41016

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? More people to wear a mask

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Rowan, KY
40351

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? A little more money and food would greatly help.

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Jefferson, KY
40241

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? 1. Keep schools closed until infections have dramatically declined. 2. UBI until 6 months following the pandemic. 3. Universal health care. 4. Internet as a utility for virtual education.

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Warren, KY
42104

What do you need to stay healthy and take care of yourself or your family during this pandemic? A second stimulus check to help with bills . More benefits to fixed income that are over income for LHEAP , SNAP

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