Reducing Kentucky’s health care costs by encouraging our workers to be safe and healthy.

HealthyKentucky^SM is designed to help Kentucky manufacturers compete better in the global economy by cutting their health care costs through an aggressive wellness strategy.

Kentucky has some of the nation’s highest rates of heart disease, obesity and lung cancer, costing manufacturers and Medicaid hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

Kentucky’s health care bill can be dramatically lowered if its workers and families smoked less, ate healthier foods and exercised more frequently.

HealthyKentucky^SM is KAM’s strategy to craft an innovative worker wellness program to begin changing Kentucky’s medical cost paradigm.

It will also help Kentucky fathers and mothers live longer lives, improving the quality of life for all Kentuckians.

HealthyKentucky^SM reduces Kentucky’s health care costs by encouraging our workers to be safe and healthy and promoting a safe, accident-free workplace.

• Lawsuit Protection – Introduce a bill to indemnify companies whose employees are assaulted by other employees who bring firearms into the workplace from their vehicles parked on private company property.
  
• Wellness – Form partnerships to reduce Kentucky’s smoking and obesity rates, encourage proper nutrition and establish voluntary wellness programs.
  
• Work with the Kentucky Long-term Policy Research Commission concerning discussions of healthcare policy in Kentucky.
  
• Support efforts to lower the medical and prescription rise in costs
  
• Support constraining the cost of health care to allow companies to continue affordable health care coverage for employees.
  
• Oppose mandated coverages, thus allowing employers and individuals to choose what coverage meets their needs.
• Advocate for a market-oriented strategy, like health insurance tax credits, to improve the affordability of health care coverage for employers and workers.

Sponsors/Partners

IQS Research

IQS Research identifies problems and opportunities by utilizing accurate and professional data collection techniques, thorough scientific analysis, and custom studies designed to answer each client’s unique set of questions. Once the picture is complete, our clients can better envision how to improve their competitive strength, organizational effectiveness, and profitability. For more information, visit www.iqsresearch.com.

ORR Safety

Since 1948, Orr Safety's primary business focus has been in the wholesale distribution of industrial safety, occupational health, industrial hygiene, and fire-related equipment and supplies. Today, as one of the nation's largest privately owned safety distributors, we represent over 600 leading global manufacturers covering all aspects of product classifications with our network of strategically located distribution centers. Our alliances with key international shipping partners enable us to provide logistical solutions to virtually any destination in the world. And all Orr Safety locations are ISO-9001 certified. For more information, visit www.orrsafety.com.

Artemetrx

Artemetrx is a healthcare cost containment company that uses data to develop and implement blueprints for healthy cost savings. Through its secure, web-based, data analysis tool, Artemetrx integrates medical and prescription claims data into a comprehensive real-time analysis of healthcare utilization, outcomes and expenditures. Their unique web-based application, cost containment analysis, ongoing claims surveillance, and customized intervention programs provide you with a cost-effective, turnkey solution that can assist you in meeting the challenges of the rising costs of healthcare benefits. For more information, visit www.artemetrx.com.