Tag Archives: health care reform

Yarmuth drops healthcare reform repeal knowledge-bomb

January 18, 2011 – 1:13 pm

As Joe has already noted, the repeal of “Obamacare” would screw over 129 million people in this country, including nearly 2 million Kentuckians, by rendering health insurance too costly and thus out of reach for the average American wage-slave. Louisville 3rd District Rep. John Yarmuth’s office has just provided their two cents on the issue, [...]

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State intervention shows why new health care plan will still suck after all

November 23, 2010 – 1:39 pm

Yeah, so that good decision by Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark to prohibit health insurers from dropping child-only insurance policies? You can thank the impending implementation of Obamacare — and the private insurance industry’s typically inhuman response mechanism — for that fucked up noise. Please allow Dr. Margaret Flowers, of the awesome Physicians for a [...]

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cn|2 releases Ky. health care opinion poll

October 14, 2010 – 12:42 pm

According to cn|2, a shit-ton of Kentuckians still hate that dang-blasted Obamacare, which will murder the elderly and turn babies into stem cell milkshakes any day now. That’s because cn|2 conducted what is known as a “poll,” whereby questions are asked of large numbers of people in the hopes of figuring something out. And what [...]

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Poll Shows Fickle Americans Support Health Care Reform

March 23, 2010 – 3:47 pm

And to think all it took was passing the damn bill… A new USA Today/Gallup poll has confirmed what Republicans do not want you to know, which is that a majority of Americans (49 percent) believe that Sunday’s passage of health care reform legislation was “a good thing” as opposed to “a very bad, evil [...]

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Lunchbox: Health Care Reform signed into law

March 23, 2010 – 12:23 pm

Paul v. Yarmuth?: Though he’s in a race for U.S. Senate, Republican Rand Paul helped organize a small rally slamming U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat, over health care reform. Yarmuth was the only member of Kentucky’s delegation to vote for the historic overhaul. The protests outside the Romano Mazzoli Federal Building in downtown Louisville [...]

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Lunchbox: Merged and un-merged

March 18, 2010 – 1:54 pm

The 7-year merge: Remember when Mayor Jerry Abramson told reporters in West Virginia that before merger the city of Louisville was getting “poorer, blacker and older,”? The gaffe sparked a new debate about the reason behind consolidating city and county governments in 2003. And WFPL’s Gabe Bullard has a two-part piece story on the benefits [...]

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Rep. Yarmuth Dishes on Imminent Health Reform

March 17, 2010 – 4:37 pm

Although it may be hard to fathom, Congress’ health care reform bill won’t murder your grandparents in the middle of the night. In fact, despite its obvious (and numerable) short-comings, there is actually some good that will come out of the affair once it’s finally passed and signed into law, which should be sometime very [...]

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Yarmuth speaks about need of HCR

March 11, 2010 – 12:38 pm

The news that Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare is eliminating 500 jobs is a depressing blow in the lingering recession. The layoffs represent about 6 percent of their workforce and the first large-scale job reductions in a Louisville hospital system since the economic downturn, according to the C-J. In Washington, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, [...]

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Shitting In The Wind

February 25, 2010 – 6:57 pm

That’s basically the only metaphor I could think of while watching today’s mega-hyped health care summit: You’re walking down the street, somebody yells at you from their window, “Hey, look at this!” and then proceeds to stick their ass into the frame and, from a decent height, defecate onto the sidewalk below. You can’t deny that the [...]

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“Poor” is the new “Morbidly Obese”

December 22, 2009 – 2:20 pm

The next time you’re chided by a “friend” or member of your “family” because you smoke “too much” and/or eat “too many” whole rotisserie-cooked game hens, tell them that you’d stand a much greater chance of dying young if you were poor. And while you’re at it, tell ‘em science sent you: The average low-income [...]

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