Ouch, this editorial took Steve Beshear to task over his growing Medicaid scandal. Beshear can’t outsource responsibility for poor, sick Kentuckians to low-bidding out-of-state companies or the courts, as much as he might wish he could. [H-L] At the bottom of its press releases the US Postal Service brags that if it were a private [...]

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Greg Stumbo is calling for an investigation of Coventry Cares. Now that it’s politically safe for him to do so. [H-L] Defense spending trumps poverty in the Republican Congress. That’s how it always works with people like Hal Rogers and Ben Chandler. [Politico] Whattya mean the white supremacists aren’t crazy as hell? Another instance of [...]

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Sorry, Thomas Massie absolutely lying about not having seen the mail piece attacking his opponents. I discussed with with one of his campaign staffers the day I published it and they shared with me Massie’s thoughts on the piece. [WFPL] An insurance provider must continue to pay for members to be treated at Eastern Kentucky’s [...]

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Maybe Steve Beshear and crew should have looked at what Passport does to properly manage its Medicaid patients before it pushed this latest mess through? Beshear loved to talk Passport up while pushing his Medicaid proposals and now he’s just ignoring a tremendous resource, it seems. [H-L] Did Richard Beliles finally wake up from his [...]

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According to the White House, Kentucky is receiving $16,557,941 in grants from health care reform legislation for community health centers. The Building Capacity Program awards: Big Sandy Health Care, Inc – Prestonsburg: $977,375 Cumberland Family Medical Center – Burkesville: $4,863,898 Family Health Center, Inc. – Louisville: $5,000,000 Grace Community Health Center, Inc. – Gray: $4,334,262 [...]

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Nope, doesn’t look like Richie Farmer is gonna play tonight, coach. Talk about a hot mess. [Page One] And just like that, Richie Farmer’s guy got axed from “The Amazing Race.” Talk about coincidental timing. [WKYT] The Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Steve Beshear’s crew are still withholding child-abuse death records. So much [...]

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Here comes Wayne T. Rutherford foaming at the mouth about the faux “war on coal.” Maybe he should stick to covering up for people like Keith Hall. [H-L] If you think Hillary Clinton isn’t considering a run for the presidency after Barack Obama’s second term, you’ll probably want to read this. [NYT] Hal Rogers’ staff [...]

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Steve Beshear says state government has been single-minded about getting the Eggners Ferry Bridge reopened since the crash. But – as we told you a couple weeks ago – that’s not based in reality. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has been spending thousands of dollars to try to deflect blame and responsibility. [H-L] You’ll probably want [...]

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Let’s listen to Rand Paul complain about how he thinks it’s wrong that medicines have to be tested before they hit the market in the United States: He doesn’t like anything else Yerp and the Foreigns do but he wants us to trust their health care shenanigans now? Interesting how that works.

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Clay County is the center of everything awful. Every single day there’s an awful story. Today? It’s about a magistrate stabbing his wife and then killing himself. [H-L] And just like that, the Mittens Romney revisionism begins. He’ll completely reinvent himself and whitewash everything. Just as his campaign staff said he would. [NY Mag] Here’s [...]

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