My response to a comment on healthcare.

Why we need medical reform. My response to a negative feedback I received on Facebook about healthcare. I think it's important.

"I just lived through a very similar situation with my Uncle whom had insurance only to be denied treatment for his disorder because it would not be covered. Forcing him to forgo his work, being a productive member of society and tax payer and get on access to simply be treated. The common misconception of the issue at hand is that it will allow the government to "monopolize" the medical industry. All of us who have been directly effected by the morally corrupt business of health (I'm saying this as a raw, panning generalization) simply want to see regulation. As of now, the medical world is the wild west where business practices seemed to made as they go. Monopoly? What is more of a monopoly? Available medicine being sold at 500% profit and on the rise because you are the only maker and refuse to se the rights for others to make it as well? Thus making a treatment available for more of those who need it.

Regulation and alternative options is all we want. I am a capitalist but I am also a human being. There are countless drugs that have been made that were being sold at a reasonable profit only to have that price skyrocket when it was found to treat more serious disorders. Thus making it unaffordable for their original, niche market and cutting their new demographics market in half by tripling their costs and making it unaffordable when they should have left it at cost, or a small rise because or production cost would be acceptable due to the rise in demand, but profiteering at the cost of human life and their suffering is what needs to be examined. This isn't a republican, democrat or whatever thing. It is a human being thing. The reason that most people are against this needed change or regulation is because they can afford to be sick financially or have no problems medically. Politicians have their insurance provided by the government... Talk about hypocritical... it's like Britney Spears judging talent. Where do they get off?

I don't want private healthcare to go away. I am lucky enough to have a great insurance that covers my health needs. I'm lobbying for those who can't move on from their souls crushing jobs excuses they are tied to their company insurance because they happens to get sick once. For the kid who is suffering ecause their hard working parent(s) can't afford shoes, rent and food let alone a doctor visit and
Or more importantly, being sick should never bankrupt a family or cost them their home.

People who are sick should be treated not exploited!

The system is admittedly flawed right now, but, we are lucky enough to live in a country where are laws are not set in stone. We can amend and adjust until a law or system works.

This shouldn't be political, it should transcend politics, business and personal wants. It's a moral obligation to help. To regain our spot atop the world powers, we first have to fix our backbone, to make people, our greatest commodity, healthy again.

Regulation and alternative options is all we ask for. "We" being the people, whom simply want to do more than breath free. We simply want to breath and suffocate under a mountain of debt because they or a loved one simply got sick once.

I'm now off my soap box."

The Dark Knight Rises Above Expectations

As a long time reader of Batman, I came into this film with very high expectations. High enough to the point that I, along with two friends, drove a hundred plus miles to see this film in the best theater possible. Were my expectations reached? As a fan? Yes and beyond. As a film lover? A couple of issues with editing but that would be extreme knit-picking. I will put it to the reader of this review as simply as possible. The movie was so epic (a word I do not regularly use as a descriptor), on a level that only the Nolan brothers can afford us with a hardy assist from great acting and comic to movie heavy weight, David s. Goyer. In this era of the handy cam, first person film; dark knight along with films like Promethus, the Avengers, Amazing Spiderman and so on, are not only a throw back to the time of blockbusters but a throwback to Hollywood giving us the films we want and deserve. Not films made simply to be released.