Tag Archives: health care reform

Public Option Lives!?

November 19, 2009 – 3:36 pm

Attention naysayers: Senate Democrats have unveiled a health care reform bill, dubbed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will expand coverage to the 31 million uninsured, reduce the deficit and make unicorns a reality. Essentially written by that socialist albatross, Harry Reid, D-NV, the details of the senate bill so far portray a document [...]

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Stupak is as Stupak does…

November 18, 2009 – 2:20 pm

In this week’s LEO, reporter Farrah Johnson journeyed to Louisville’s only abortion clinic to observe the ongoing battle over a woman’s right to choose. Here’s an excerpt:
Although the scene outside the surgical center in Louisville is typically rowdy, the clash between activists on the front lines has intensified recently given the current political fight over [...]

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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 obvious [...]

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Health Reform You Can Believe In (?!)

November 3, 2009 – 5:18 pm

The numbers on Congress’ health care reform bill are in, and I can honestly say I’m shocked — in a good way. In what may be the first time in recent memory that Congress hasn’t totally screwed the pooch on a Big Issue, it appears as though Obama’s push to reform our dysfunctional health care [...]

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GOP Death Watch: Day 36,041

October 20, 2009 – 11:48 am

I like numbers. Although I often don’t understand them, they can be helpful little things, especially when they are used to make “polls.” In this case, we have an ABC/Washington Post poll, which shows that only 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans — the lowest GOP party ID in over 25 years.
Only 20 [...]

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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.

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McConnell Says Something False. Again.

September 24, 2009 – 4:35 pm

Look! It’s our non-sleeping senator, Mitch McConnell, on the front page of the left-leaning news-and-celebrity T&A website The Huffington Post. And hey, there’s John Boehner, too! What did these fine men do to deserve such an honor? Why, they’re lying dicks!

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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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Humana Dis-info Mailers Irritate Congress

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 [...]

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