Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Blog Post #22
I started a book called "Confessions of a Shopaholic" by Sophie Kinsella. It is about a woman named Becky Bloomwood, who spends way more than she makes, so she has a large amount of debt. Even though she owes lots of money she continues to buy lots of designer clothes. I think this book is pretty good so far, but I would like it better if the money values were in dollars instead of pounds because I don't really know the value of a pound. But yet I find the book really exciting and the movie is coming out soon and I can’t wait to see it! But it probably wont be a good as the book.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Blog post #21
For this next blog post our English teaccher asked us to write about a book we just finished reading called All My Sons. But we supposed to write about the movie for it we watched a compare the two. In many ways they were similar and differen't. Like, for similarities all there characters were in the movie that were in the play and the story line was practicly the same.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Blog Post #20!!
Against Health Care
Opponents to government sponsored health care insurance worry about increased costs of health care and a decrease in the quality of health care if the government is involved. Not to mention there could be fewer rules or “government mandates” and less government control of our medical care according to Scott W. Atlas fellow at the Hoover Institution.
The executive director of the association of the American Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Jane Orient see’s the government sponsored health insurance of having a big fat price tag. She continues say “ Endlessly escalating demands on your money are guaranteed.”
Rising costs are not the only problem government sponsored health insurance would bring. Karen Ignagni president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance plans, says “total government takeover of health care would result in “long waits for care, underpaid doctors and delayed adoptions of new technologies.”
To conclude, moving ahead in the way we operate now makes sense practically dollar and cents wise.
Opponents to government sponsored health care insurance worry about increased costs of health care and a decrease in the quality of health care if the government is involved. Not to mention there could be fewer rules or “government mandates” and less government control of our medical care according to Scott W. Atlas fellow at the Hoover Institution.
The executive director of the association of the American Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Jane Orient see’s the government sponsored health insurance of having a big fat price tag. She continues say “ Endlessly escalating demands on your money are guaranteed.”
Rising costs are not the only problem government sponsored health insurance would bring. Karen Ignagni president and CEO of America’s Health Insurance plans, says “total government takeover of health care would result in “long waits for care, underpaid doctors and delayed adoptions of new technologies.”
To conclude, moving ahead in the way we operate now makes sense practically dollar and cents wise.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sunday Blog #19
Hey this is Sara and I would like to talk to you about a debate we are doing in English. And my topic is about health care and this pharagraph is for it!
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Many people think that are health care system ain’t broke and we don’t need to fix it, but if you look more closely at our health care system there are many problems. The first problem I would like point out is that many many people are uninsured. Like, 47 million! This shows that the system is broken.
Insuring all people is very important because it’s way cheaper to keep all people healthy than it is to take care of them in a crisis. Even Senator Richard Moore of Massachusetts knows this when he argues “That the reason for having all people insured is to make sure they get routine screenings, which can prevent trips to the emergency room.” The senator see’s the wisdom of preventative health care. Financially it makes good dollars and cents to be proactive than reactive.
Private health may look like a good thing but it sometimes back fires. Steffi Woolhandler of Harvard is part of a research group who had discovered a relationship between health costs and bankruptcies. Sometimes health care only covers so much that the insured person has to pay the difference which has led to many people going bankrupt. This is a good example of a plan backfiring. Steffi Woolhandlers group “Found that too often private health insurance is an umbrella that melts in the rain.”To conclude, you can see by my examples that a system is broken.
“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” Many people think that are health care system ain’t broke and we don’t need to fix it, but if you look more closely at our health care system there are many problems. The first problem I would like point out is that many many people are uninsured. Like, 47 million! This shows that the system is broken.
Insuring all people is very important because it’s way cheaper to keep all people healthy than it is to take care of them in a crisis. Even Senator Richard Moore of Massachusetts knows this when he argues “That the reason for having all people insured is to make sure they get routine screenings, which can prevent trips to the emergency room.” The senator see’s the wisdom of preventative health care. Financially it makes good dollars and cents to be proactive than reactive.
Private health may look like a good thing but it sometimes back fires. Steffi Woolhandler of Harvard is part of a research group who had discovered a relationship between health costs and bankruptcies. Sometimes health care only covers so much that the insured person has to pay the difference which has led to many people going bankrupt. This is a good example of a plan backfiring. Steffi Woolhandlers group “Found that too often private health insurance is an umbrella that melts in the rain.”To conclude, you can see by my examples that a system is broken.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Blog Post #18
today's assignment i watched a movie called 27 Dresses and it was a very good movie. It's one of my favorites. It was about a girl who loves to help her friends with there weddings and she has been in about 27. And all of a sudden her sister starts dating her boss who she has a crush on. So, she is sad but later she is more sad when she finds out that her younger sister is getting married to him before her. So, she has to plan everything for her sister and later she meets a guy named Malcom Doyle who is a writer who writes about weddings, her favorite thing. At first she is not really interested in him but as time flies by she starts to fall in love with him!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Blog #17
Today i read an article called Schools aim to have more students consider AP classes by Sarah Lemagie. This article was found in the Twin Cities paper and it was about two south-metro districts that are among a cluster statewide using state grants to help students realize they could take Advanced Placement classes and do well on the exams. Also, giving students the support they need to excel is just one of the challenges faced by AP teachers at Simley and other Minnesota schools. So, i think that students should take a AP class sometime in there school years should try to take an AP class.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Wednesday Blog #16
For today's assignment/blog i watched a movie on Monday December 1 and since its almost Christmas i watched the movie Elf, will Will Ferrell. And i would like to blog about it.The movie was about a regular boy named Buddy was raised by Elf's until he over heard some elf's talking about how he is not really a elf but a human who was adopted. So, after he found out he decided that he wanted to leave the North Pole and go to New York City and find he's real dad. So, he travels to New York on foot and on his way he meets many people even when he arrives in New York. He also gets a job at a store because the manager mistakes him for a real worker there cause he is wearing a Christmas costume. And many different things happen to him when he tries to get his dad to know that he is his son.
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