Would ObamaCare Kill Medical Innovation?

So how does everyone feel about the health care bill? Are you for it against it, somewhere in the middle?

I am totally for healthcare reform, there is a lot that needs to be done, but to socialize it & to remove profits from it would kill innovation.

"If you have cancer you want to be in the United states" What does that say about all the countries that have socialised healthcare? The average cost of a new medication cost over 1 billion dollars, they have to recoup the cost somehow, how come we support & pay uber high cost to attend a sporting event so an athlete can make ten of millions of dollars, or we buy a shoe that cost 150.00 to do the same. Yet we are unwilling to let the drug companies make profit on a drug that is saving are life. To me we have some bassakwards issues here.

If there is no incentive to make a profit, what will be the incentive to create & maintain new & ever evolving medications? I pay a ridiculous amount t of money each month to insure my family, yes it pisses me off when I have to pay it each month(i think Lauren & I could spend a month in Hawaii each year if I did not have to pay this), but if Melia or Cooper ever needs a life saving treatment it will all be worth it.

Reform needs to be done though, if you are paying the insurance companies should not be able to drop you, or refuse you. No pre-existing bull crap. Yes there needs to be some sort of low cost alternatives for people to get basic care. Bt forcing people to have health insurance & by not doing so you could get jail time, is not the answer. People are people & they should be able to decide what best suites there family. It is not the governments role to decide for him, or to charge the rich to pay for the poor.

Rivalry Week!!

What do you call a BYU Player with a BCS ring? A Utah coach!


This has to be one of the best weeks of the year! Utah vs. BYU the Saturday after thanksgiving. I love this week all the banter back and forth, the pranks, the jokes, the hype. This year BYU is favored by -7.5 I truly can not understand why, probably mostly because they are at home. It is going to be fun, I am going to the game with 2 of my good buddies Nick a ute, & Kemery a zoob. I think we are smack dab in the center of the BYU section. SHould make out for a very hostile environment, especially if it is a close game like usual. So what are your favorite Utah vs BYU stories?

Once I was at a Utah BYU basketball game down in the bubble, I stood the whole game cheering for Utah, the people behind told me I could not keep standing, they even went and complained to the ushers that I was standing to much. To there dismay the usher told them I could stand as much as I want. Good times.

Max Halls baby picture!

Gay marriage & religion

Right out of the gate lets hit a hot issue. I have discussed this on face book a bit with a few different people. With so much going on lately in the news about Gay marriage, I thought I would see how everyone felt.

This is the question

Do you think it would be satisfactory for the government to get out of the marriage business all together, leaving marriage to the churches and only recognizing a secular civil union? Please explain your answer if you can.

So who should decide who can marry? Should it be the Federal government, State government, the people should vote on it? Recently there was the whole prop 8 debate, many people were ticked @ religious groups Mormons in particular for how much time & money they spent on defeating it. Is that there right, or are they mingling where they should not belong?

My take...

I do think the Federal government should not be in the marriage business. I think the government should grant Secular civil unions to all consenting adults & let everyone have = rights. If two dudes want to marry who is the federal government to tell them they can not have the same rights as a straight couple? Then let each church decide who they let get married, if the jews want to allow Gay marriages in the churches so be it & if the LDS does not so be it.

Let me say though I do think it is a choice to be homosexual, & a choice I do not agree with. With that said we all get to make are own choices, & if adults of legal age want to make that decision, then who am I to deny that. If a man wants to have 12 wife's as long as they are of legal age so be it.

"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path"