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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks to the Somerset-Pulaski Chamber of Commerce during its monthly luncheon Tuesday at The Center for Rural Development. alert featured
CHRISTOPHER HARRIS
Commonwealth Journal
7 hrs ago
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul speaks to the Somerset-Pulaski Chamber of Commerce during its monthly luncheon Tuesday at The Center for Rural Development.
Though it was actually the monthly Somerset-Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce luncheon at The Center for Rural Development, one might be excused for feeling like they were in the congregation of a charismatic church on Tuesday during Sen. Rand Paul s address.
As the junior senator from Kentucky made his points, one could hear affirmative murmuring from the crowd could be heard: Yes, That s right, etc., the same way those in a church might give an amen from the pews.Â
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Citing multiple flaws in the state s bidding process for $8 billion in state Medicaid business, a judge has tossed out the contracts awarded to six national health insurance companies and ordered the state to rebid the entire package.
This would make the third time Kentucky will have to seek bids for the lucrative contracts, which are for outside companies to manage health care for people covered by Medicaid.
In an order issued Wednesday, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd said multiple flaws cast a cloud over the process s legitimacy.
Shepherd s order comes as the latest twist in a protracted dispute over some of the largest contracts in state government.