Kentucky 42nd in the
Nation for Healthcare

Source The Commonwealth Fund

Laura Ungar

Laura Ungar is the St. Louis‐based Midwest Editor/Correspondent for Kaiser Health News. She has been a journalist for nearly three decades, including for The (Louisville) Courier Journal, USA TODAY, the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and The News Journal in Delaware. She's covered health for more than half her career, writting about issues from cancer disparities to lead in water to the largest HIV outbreak in rural America. She's won more than 50 national, regional and local journalism awards from organizations such as Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists and National Headliners. She teaches a class at the University of Missouri, editing stories by students from the United States and India that run in the St. Louis Post‐Dispatch and in various Indian media.