I chose to write my final blog over Politics for Idiots.... by King of said Idiots simply because the name of this blog intrigued me and I wanted to see what the author had to say. For his most recent blog, the author discussed his feelings about a company named Cigna and how they have been depriving many people of their rightful care and money.
I really respect your outlook on this topic. I can relate to your situation of graduating and moving out of your house for college because I just completed my second year at Texas. I also took for granted the 'free money' I had received for the first 18 years of my life so I can understand where you are coming from with this insurance company committing these 'crimes.'
I too feel that this insurance companies heinous acts should definitely be stopped. The man that they deemed 'not disabled' even though he has a terrible disease is horrible. Like you said, a doctor killing someone due to malpractice is unconstitutional and illegal so why in the world are Cigna's decisions of depriving people who need financial assistance not unconstitutional. I knew that there have been unfortunate situations such as this one over the years, but I had no idea to the degree Cigna has been doing wrong.
I really found your previous blog extremely insightful and especially after reading the article. After thinking about this subject, I feel that it is up to you and I and the rest of our generation to make these atrocities come to an end. I feel that as we become more educated on political topics such as this one, we must act on them and make sure that our congressmen address these topics in their entirety. Unfortunately, I feel that no matter what, things like this will continue to happen to many unfortunate people for a good while due to the nature of American businesses and the cut throat people who run them.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
My thoughts on where our government is today
For this particular blog, I have an open forum. So I have decided to discuss the topic of the current relationship between our National government and American sports.
During this past spring, this topic was all over the news with the ‘Mitchell Report’ being published. Senator George Mitchell wrote this in-depth report over accounts of illegal steroid use in major league baseball. Although there were many names listed in this lengthy report, Roger Clemmens and Andy Pettite were among the marquee names. This strikes close to me because Roger Clemmens played his college baseball at The University of Texas which I am a student at currently and Andy Pettite played at San Jacinto Junior College which is in my home community in Clear Lake.
With this in mind, I wanted to express my feelings of our government getting involved with sports and steroids. Senator Mitchell obviously must have had strong feelings on this topic to put in all of the time and dedication he did in this report. However, I feel that this is a bit overkill, especially that most of the alleged steroid users either used them when they were legal or used them for medical purposes such as recovering from an injury. I feel that our government should be focusing on more important topics concerning our entire nation. I feel that with everything going on such as the war in Iraq and Immigration, our congressmen shouldn't be so concerned with illegal steroid use in sports.
Another thought on this is regarding our last discussion with national and state powers. I feel that maybe this issue should be dealt with by the respective state governments. I will ask you, the reader, what your thoughts are on the government dealing with steroid use and rather it should be up to the national government or the state governments?
During this past spring, this topic was all over the news with the ‘Mitchell Report’ being published. Senator George Mitchell wrote this in-depth report over accounts of illegal steroid use in major league baseball. Although there were many names listed in this lengthy report, Roger Clemmens and Andy Pettite were among the marquee names. This strikes close to me because Roger Clemmens played his college baseball at The University of Texas which I am a student at currently and Andy Pettite played at San Jacinto Junior College which is in my home community in Clear Lake.
With this in mind, I wanted to express my feelings of our government getting involved with sports and steroids. Senator Mitchell obviously must have had strong feelings on this topic to put in all of the time and dedication he did in this report. However, I feel that this is a bit overkill, especially that most of the alleged steroid users either used them when they were legal or used them for medical purposes such as recovering from an injury. I feel that our government should be focusing on more important topics concerning our entire nation. I feel that with everything going on such as the war in Iraq and Immigration, our congressmen shouldn't be so concerned with illegal steroid use in sports.
Another thought on this is regarding our last discussion with national and state powers. I feel that maybe this issue should be dealt with by the respective state governments. I will ask you, the reader, what your thoughts are on the government dealing with steroid use and rather it should be up to the national government or the state governments?
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