Good entertainment. If you haven’t had a chance, listen to the radio “debate” between Fletcher and Beshear. If we’re basing things on courtesy and manners displayed in this radio show alone? Neither of these gentleman have any. Endless blabbering after repeated requests to stop were ignored. And ignored. And ignored. [WKYX]
When giants attack. Attorney General Greg Stumbo is on the right side of the nightmarish Monsanto-Delta & Pine merger. Monstanto, the world’s largest producer of pesticides and genetically engineered seed, is best known for using their GRE plants to obliterate the crops of legitimate farmers– permanently infecting the food chain. Oh– and they tried to patent the pig. [Legal Newsline]
Gaming the System. Humana breaks the law, pays $500,000 fine for misleading customers, using unlicensed agents. Imagine it– a health insurance giant skirting the law and paying a fine. Just the cost of doing business, right? [Business First]
Meanwhile, the number of individuals without health insurance nationwide is skyrocketing. (14% of Kentuckians lack coverage) The Census Bureau released figures showing the number of those without insurance rose from 44.8 million in 2005 to 47 million in 2006. That means– based on numbers two years old– nearly 16% of the population doesn’t have health coverage. People covered by employer-based health insurance fell 1.5% and the number of uninsured children rose 700,000 to 8.7 million in the same 2005-2006 period of time. [Business First, H-L]
We didn’t know Seattle had Republicans! A waitress (server, to be politically correct) helped anonymously pen a facetious blog complaint against Stefan Sharkansky. Apparently, he lets his kids run rampant and is a horrible tipper. Sounds like a familiar former Democratic Lt. Governor of Kentucky, if you ask us! [Consumerist]
Taking it to their doorsteps. War protesters rally against Sen. Mitch McConnell tonight. Thousands in Kentucky are expected to take part in National Take a Stand Day, holding a rally and a march to McConnell’s home in Louisville. [WLKY]
5 responses so far ↓
1 David Adams // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:23 am
Go to the Census Bureau website and look up the chart showing uninsured Americans over the last 20 years.
Rather than skyrocketing, it looks suspiciously like a flat line. In fact, the percentage of uninsured was as high throughout the glorious Clinton years as it is now.
2 jake // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:05 am
David,
Hundreds of thousands and/or millions = skyrocketing. Especially since we only have 300 million people in the United States.
A flat line would be, oh, zero. At least in the real world. 45 or 46 million people is an ass load. No matter the amount of time these individuals have been uninsured– nothing makes it okay or excusable.
From 1987 to 2006 the number of uninsured has risen by about 17 million.
3 David Adams // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:33 am
The U.S. population has risen just as fast as the number of uninsured. By the same token, ten years ago half of my kids were left-handed (1 out of two). Today, I have twice as many left-handed kids (2 out of four). Shall we say left-handed kids in the Adams household are sky-rocketing or staying the same proportion?
National percentage of uninsured stays the same for twenty years = flat line.
4 jake // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:37 am
David – Click the link in my above comment. Look at the line. It’s hardly flat.
Do you get it? Even if the population is increasing– MORE people are uninsured. More. As in hundreds of thousands to millions. That’s a fucking lot. A huge fucking lot.
Population increases aren’t a viable excuse. It’s 2007.
5 Steve Magruder // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:16 pm
There’s never an excuse for millions going uninsured. Play with the math all you like and blame all the politicians you like, it’s a national shame.
Access to health care, as it’s a life/death thing, should be a right of all citizens, and the free-market health insurance industry has clearly been an abysmal failure over a long period of time. It’s high time to find a way to socialize this, as that’s basically the only cure left at our disposal.
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