KY To Create Statewide Health Insurance Exchange

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Governor Steve Beshear said Thursday Kentucky is ready to move ahead to create a statewide health insurance exchange after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal health care federal health care overhaul. Beshear said he will issue an executive order "soon" to create the online exchange that's intended to help uninsured Kentuckians find affordable health coverage. Officials say the health care act will add 300,000 Kentuckians who can't afford health insurance to the Medicaid program. In February, Kentucky received a nearly $58 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to prepare for the implementation of the reforms.