November 2, 2009 – 12:10 pm
Militias?!?!: Oh god. Chris Kenning’s wonderful story in Sunday’s CJ about the uptick in Kentucky militias — a reaction to the crap-ass economy and the election of President Obama — left us unsettled and a little afraid, with echoes of Waco playing in our heads. Read it.
Dog days continue: In last week’s print issue we [...]
October 19, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Feeling healthy again?: A super-bitchy major health care provider and its super-bitchy nemesis insurer have finally agreed to disagree. With the end of the Norton-Anthem dispute — in which services between the two were halted July 1, after Norton demanded double-digit increases in reimbursements and Anthem said no — comes reinstatement of patients’ full, hard-earned [...]
October 16, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Yesterday at noon, some 30-40 activists, organizers and average citizens gathered to shout truth at the monolithic Humana building in downtown, Louisville with electric bullhorns. Their chief purpose was to call out Mitch McConnell’s allegiance to private health insurers, which is pretty self-evident.
October 14, 2009 – 3:29 pm
Fun Fact: Kentucky ranks 2nd in the nation for loss of natural teeth — a fact attributable to our less-than-exemplary access to proper dental services, which is itself a reflection of historic poverty, under-education, disdain of “elitist” doctors and/or a fondness for chewing tobacco. Call us old-fashioned!
That is precisely why Gov. Steve Beshear’s announcement of a cutely acronymed initiative called Access for Babies [...]
October 6, 2009 – 11:45 am
Late last week Minority Leader John Boehner, OH-8, asserted that he hasn’t met anyone who is in favor of the public insurance option.
“I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the public option, other than a member of Congress or the administration,” said Boehner.
In response, Congressman John Yarmuth, [...]
September 22, 2009 – 2:04 pm
Here at Fatlip, we’ve enjoyed an ongoing and spirited discussion about the merits, pitfalls and erstwhile falsehoods surrounding the national health care debate. Yet whether it’s a public option, a singe-payer system or a finely calibrated network of doctor-monkeys providing care solely in exchange for sweet, delicious bananas, one thing cannot be denied: The system [...]
September 21, 2009 – 1:41 pm
If only advocates for a single-payer system had the balls, gumption and tactless guile of a major private health insurance company when it comes to getting Max Baucus’ full attention…
WASHINGTON— The government is investigating Louisville-based Humana for allegedly trying to scare seniors with a mailer warning they could lose important benefits under health care legislation [...]
September 16, 2009 – 2:16 pm
Forget that Max “The Face of The Death of Change” Baucus (D-Who gives a shit) unveiled his abominable health care “reform” bill today and consider this little 9-and-a-half minute ditty, courtesy of the intrepid Public Record and filmed at last Saturday’s 9/12 March For Idiocy in Washington, D.C., wherein the very people whose asinine beliefs [...]
August 27, 2009 – 2:21 pm
As Americans, we’re the most blogginist, most tweetinist varmints to ever grace this dying planet; inheritors of the Industrial, Green and technological revolutions that have largely passed by the majority of the world’s poor, non-tweeting population, we’ve reaped the benefits of “progress” such that the sheer amount of information at our fingertips would make us [...]
August 26, 2009 – 2:54 pm
Attention fatties: If you value your brain, put down that Famous Bowl and step away from the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC. A new UCLA study shows that obese people exhibit higher levels of brain degeneration than their svelte counterparts. On average, corpulent individuals have brains aged prematurely by as much as 8 years.
More than 300 million worldwide [...]
