Join with hundreds of Kentuckians with disabilities, family members and advocates from across the Commonwealth to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the ADA. Come be visible, vocal and vigilant to protect our rights! We must ensure that all programs and services are accessible to and usable by Kentuckians with disabilities. ASL Interpreters Provided! Capital Rotunda-700 Capital Avenue-Frankfort, Kentucky July 26, 2010-11:00 am to 1:00 pm-Lunch is provided- Click here for more info.
Is The 2008 Democratic National Platform - "Renewing America's Promise" worth the paper it is written on? Do elected Democrats take this promise seriously? Did the builders of this Platform "Renewing America's Promise" do it with a wink and a smile knowing full well it was all bull shit? Maybe the Democratic Platform builders could just copy and paste the Republican Platform, because that seems to be what they really believe in. Where were these platform builders and where was their outrage during the Health Care debate? Want my opinion? OK here it is. The platform builders are all words and no action, in other words, bull shit artist hoping and praying we have short memories. Let me make my case.
Type two diabetes is caused by insulin resistance. The drug companies are too dishonest and lazy to produce a medication that treats insulin resistance at the cellular level. An example of this is the drug Lantus. Lantus is insulin and does NOTHING to treat insulin resistance at the cellular level. Because the medical profession and drug companies are lazy and dishonest there is no treatment for insulin resistance at the cellular level which is the cause of type two diabetes. If an automobile engine has an oil leak adding more oil does not fix the leak. Adding more insulin to the human body does not treat insulin resistance. To be perfectly honest anything that requires diet modification does not treat insulin resistance at the cellular level which is the cause of type two diabetes. This includes medications that cause the liver to secrete less glucose. The secretion of glucose by the liver does not cause type two diabetes. Insulin resistance at the cellular level does. When will the drug companies become honest enough to TREAT INSULIN RESISTANCE AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL?
Jack Conway won the Kentucky Democratic primary for the US senate and my question is this: Is Jack Conway, as he proclaims "One Tough Son Of A Bitch" We'll See! I'm one of those folks out here in Red State Kentucky looking for a real progressive to vote for. Is Jack Conway the man?
Frontline PBS A sobering look at the push to reform health care, revealing the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups and the role of money in policy making.
Max Blumenthal Republican Rep. John Campbell just confirmed to the Washington Post that a fellow Republican called Rep. Bart Stupak, the anti-abortion Democrat who voted for healthcare reform, a “baby killer.” He declined to say who. Campbell’s Republican colleague, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, said the shout came from an area where the Texas and California delegations usually sit. Rep. George Radanovich, a fiercely anti-abortion Republican from California’s Central Valley who plans on retiring in 2010, is rumored to be the culprit. An entry on Radanovich’s Wikipedia page that identified him as the screamer was just scrubbed but Gawker has a screen capture. Whether or not the identity of “Baby-Killer” is confirmed, the incident highlights the distinctive similarity between Republican members of Congress and the teabagger rabble who surrounded the Capitol yesterday, screaming racist and homophobic epithets at John Lewis and Barney Frank.
March 22, 2010 Last night Ed Whitfield, Brett Guthrie, Geoff Davis, Hal Rogers and Ben Chandler Voted Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Health Care Reform). Click here for the Roll Call.
Click here to see what Ed Whitfield, Brett Guthrie, Geoff Davis, Hal Rogers and Ben Chandler Voted Against.
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In Rep. Chandler’s district, the health care reform bill will:
Improve coverage for 465,000 residents with health insurance.
Tax credits and other assistance to up to 196,000 families and 14,900 small businesses to help them afford coverage.
Improve Medicare for 112,000 beneficiaries, including closing the donut hole.
Extend coverage to 56,000 uninsured residents.
Guarantee that 12,700 residents with pre-existing conditions can obtain coverage.
Protect 1,600 families from bankruptcy due to unaffordable health care costs.
Allow 66,000 young adults to obtain coverage on their parents’ insurance plans. Provide millions of dollars in new funding for 18 community health centers.
Reduce the cost of uncompensated care for hospitals and other health care providers by $62 million annually.
10 TV COLUMBUS, Ohio — The battle over healthcare reform brought protesters from all sides to a rally on Tuesday. Hundreds of people lined Olentangy River Road, outside of U.S. Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy's office, on the city's northwest side, 10TV's Tracy Townsend reported.
Thank you Dr. Andy Moore. Your are truly an American Hero. Since 2005, Dr. Andy Moore's Surgery on Sunday has provided free surgical care to more than 3,100 uninsured patients. Dr. Andrew Moore practices General Surgery and Plastic Surgery in Lexington, Kentucky.
LANGUAGE WARNING: Today’s story is uncharacteristically blunt, and from this moment forward we will be using lots of inappropriate language in making our points.
It is by now fairly well known that Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, had a bit of a blow-up with liberals who were ready to start running ads against “blue dog” Democrats who were working very hard to shut down the health care reform effort.
Now we’re not gonna get in the middle of that argument today; instead, since we’re finally getting a chance to talk, I figured me and Rahm could get a few other things out of the way that have been on everyone’s mind for the past year or so.
Brown Bag Vigil Host: West KY Citizens for Health Care Reform Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: Front of Sen. Mitch McConnell's Office Street: 2320 Broadway (Professional Arts Bldg.) City/Town: Paducah, KY Face Book Page:
Health Care Now The five largest U.S. health insurance companies sailed through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression to set new industry profit records in 2009, a feat accomplished by leaving behind 2.7 million americans who had been inprivate health plans. For customers who kept their benefits, the insurers raised rates and cost-sharing,and cut the share of premiums spent on medical care. Executives and shareholders of the five biggest for-profit health insurers, UnitedHealthGroup inc., WellPoint inc., Aetna Inc., Humana Inc., and Cigna Corp., enjoyed combined profit of $12.2 billion in 2009, up 56 percent from the previous year. It was the best year ever for Big Insurance. The 2009 financial reports from the nation’s five largest insurance companies reveal that: The firms made $12.2 billion, an increase of $4.4 billion, or 56 percent, from 2008. Four out of the five companies saw earnings increases, with CIGNA’s profits jumping 346 percent. The companies provided private insurance coverage to 2.7 million fewer people than the year before. Four out of the five companies insured fewer people through private coverage. UnitedHealth alone insured 1.7 million fewer people through employer-based or individual coverage. All but one of the five companies increased the number of people they covered through public insurance programs (Medicaid, CHIP and Medicare). UnitedHealth added 680,000 people in public plans. The proportion of premium dollars spent on health care expenses went down for three of the five firms, with higher proportions going to administrative expenses and profits. Read more.
