November 10, 2009 – 5:35 pm
A friend of mine brought to my attention one of those “bursting cyst” videos that make the internet the mysterious and enchanting place that we know and love it to be. After watching one after the other, however, it became apparent that there are too many people performing home surgeries on their cysts in this [...]
November 9, 2009 – 1:23 pm
Over the weekend, your House of Representatives passed a bill that would, depending on who you listen to, make health care coverage affordable for the vast majority of Americans or plunge the nation into a dark netherworld of socialism, its discontents and large, building-sized pictures of Josef Stalin.
Although we’re inclined to think it’s the former (for obvious [...]
November 9, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Walk tall: Make sure to look both ways before you cross that street, Louisville. Our city is the seventh-most dangerous for pedestrians, according to a new study by the group Transportation for America. It’s partly because of our suburb boom post-WWII, and (I’m just guessing here, based on my own anecdotal info) partly because a [...]
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 [...]
