Category Archives: health care

Cost of Obesity: $361 Per Adult

November 24, 2009 – 2:42 pm

Sorry to interrupt your daily office chair-workout routine, but America’s obesity epidemic isn’t getting any better, as the following data from Executive Healthcare Magazine illustrates: By 2018, obesity will account for more than 21 percent of healthcare spending, with a cost of $1,425 per person, which is a rise from $361 per adult in 2009. [...]

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A Worrying Trend In Lieu Of Health Reform

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 [...]

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Something About ‘Health Care Reform’…

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 [...]

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Lunchbox: Where have all the pill poppers gone?

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 [...]

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Lunchbox: Militias on the loose

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 [...]

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Lunchbox: Death battle over between life enhancers

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 [...]

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Bullhorn vs. Bullshit

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. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvqBVibjjA&feature=player_profilepage[/youtube]

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KY: Fighting Mountain Dew Mouth, Tooth For Tooth

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 [...]

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Yarmuth’s invite to Boehner

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 [...]

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Health Insurance Premiums Skyrocket for KY Families

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 [...]

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