I was encouraged to hear Chairman Guthrie say that simplifying financial aid does not mean cutting it.
James Guthrie
The Public Record
I introduced a bill--the Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act -- that would improve the timing, frequency, and content of financial aid counseling.
Medicaid expansion, if you let it go as it is, it doubles over the next 10 years. It is just unsustainable.
It is not a radical issue. It could be bipartisan if people chose to work together.
Eighteen years ago when my young daughter was born, we were all happy and excited. Then I did the math.
Let's create a system and a Medicaid program where people were transitioned off so they can improve themselves, go to school, become productive and move forward.
Governor Bevin is actually trying to take a program that he inherited that was a hundred percent federal taxpayer paid for now the state has got to start putting money into the program and trying to make it work.
What Governor Bevin is trying to do is trying to treat the expanded population of able bodied, not traditional Medicaid of frail, elderly, disabled people that are chronically ill, he is trying to take able bodied and treat them more like traditional insurance.
the corporation not only requested reimbursement for only a third of the funds you recommended, but the corporation retroactively expanded the range of service activities of the grant in order to justify the move.
H.R. 921, the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act, sponsored by the Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (KY) clarifies medical liability rules for athletic trainers and medical professionals to ensure they are properly covered by their malpractice insurance while traveling with their athletic teams to other states.
I just have to be honest. I have been working on this for a while... that was a positive experience and I really appreciated that.





