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House passes historic health care bill

March 22, 2010 – 12:11 am

The year-long fight over health care reform took a historic step tonight. The divided House of Representatives approved what has been President Barack Obama’s chief domestic issue with a 219-212 vote. Here’s the roll call. As political observers predicted only one member of Kentucky’s delegation supported the bill — U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-3, who [...]

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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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Fossil Fuels’ Hidden Costs: $6 Million Per Life

October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm

A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!) According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due [...]

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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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N. KY Hospital Gets Gyno-bots. Really.

July 24, 2009 – 11:38 am

It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are … receiving better care! St. Elizabeth Healthcare announced Wednesday that it has purchased the Intuitive Surgical da Vinci S Surgical System for minimally invasive surgical procedures … [...]

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Ohioan Humana Employees Forced To Lead Healthier Lives

June 16, 2009 – 2:23 pm

Luckily, the wise and far-seeing individuals whom populate the Kentucky legislature won’t allow for these kind of shenanigans on Bluegrass soil: CINCINNATI — Humana of Ohio will require all new employees who smoke to quit the habit. But it’s not an issue in Kentucky for the Louisville-based insurer. The Louisville-based insurer, which employs more than [...]

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Protesting Done Right

May 12, 2009 – 6:18 pm

In what starts out as your typical Senatorial hearing on health care reform, presiding arbiter-in-chief Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) is repeatedly interrupted by a succession of earnest, regular citizens who point out the obvious to our elected leaders and the special interest groups who love them: If the majority of Americans want a single-payer option, [...]

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