Kentucky tests how much to demand of Medicaid recipients

FRANKFORT AND COVINGTON, KY.—Late last month, while recovering in hospital, Kayleeann Hummell had an unusual epiphany after emergency surgery: She was grateful her health problems had happened now.

When the high school senior was sent home by the school nurse in intense pain, she headed to a hospital. Within 10 minutes she was being prepped for appendix surgery.

Growing up in a poor family in northern Kentucky she has been on Medicaid almost her entire life. On that day, she says, it literally saved her life. But if her health issues had struck this July, she says, “I probably would have died.”

For Ms. Hummell and others on Medicaid around the state, the looming changes are a source of fear and anxiety…

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