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Ins and Outs and others of health insurance

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

One of the great benefits of working at a full time job, is that often times your employer will provide health insurance. This insurance doesn’t come free, most likely a portion of your salary is deducted to cover it’s costs, however becuase you are under a company you can acheive greater discounts through group rates.

Health insurance is simply a type of insurance that will cover the insured person or part when that person or party become sick or injured,etc. The insurer is not always a private organization it can often times be a government agency. There are great differences between health care insurance around the world. For example in Canada health care is part of our social system and is public, where as in the United States health care is for the most part private.

There are several pros and cons to each system, and depending on the area in which you reside you might not have a choice as to which system that you choose. Private health insurance has become one of the most talked about and debated forms of insurance because of the impact that it places on the different levels of society, for example the poor, middle class, and wealthy. Should it be that a person with more money, is allowed to have better medical facilities and attention, and is it not that a services such as health care are a basic human right? I’m not sure if we will ever see an end to this debate, as there is soo many pros and cons to each side, and I’m sure that you can see who would be fighting for which side, and why.

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Alias (Season 4) DVD Review

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Premiering in September 2001, Alias has built a steady and loyal following among television viewers. The show combines the fast pace action sequences of 24 with the conspiracy theory backdrop of the X-Files. It also doesn’t hurt that the show centers itself around a character that’s a beautiful and mysterious woman. But the true strength of Alias, as with most successful TV shows, is its unique and creative writers who manage to always keep their audience on edge…

Jennifer Garner (star of 13 Going On Thirty) plays the role of Sydney Anne Bristow, a beautiful, intelligent American woman recruited to work for the government’s super secret SD-6 agency. However, problems arise when her fiancé is murdered by the agency she works for, and she ultimately discovers that SD-6 is not a legitimate government organization at all… In seek of revenge, Sydney contacts the CIA, and they deploy her as a double agent. Meanwhile, Sydney’s estranged father, Jack (Victor Garber), also works as a double agent, and their relationship blossoms as a result of their work. Together, they manage to eliminate SD-6, and now both work full-time for the CIA where they’re accompanied by fellow colleagues Marshall Flinkman (Kevin Weisman), Marcus Dixon (Carl Lumbly), and Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan)…

The Alias (Season 4) DVD features a number of exciting episodes including the season premiere “Authorized Personnel Only” in which Sydney quits the CIA in favor of joining a secret organization known as Authorized Personnel Only. Meanwhile, the answers Sydney uncovered in Wittenberg threaten to ruin her relationship with Jack, at least until she is forced to join forces with her father in an effort to track down a dangerous samurai… Other notable episodes from Season 4 include “Détente” in which Sydney and Nadia go undercover together in order to dig up the location of a deadly chemical, and “Nightingale” in which Sydney and Vaughn risk their lives to find out the truth about Vaughn’s father…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Alias (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 67 (Authorized Personnel Only: Part 1) Air Date: 01-05-2005
Episode 68 (Authorized Personnel Only: Part 2) Air Date: 01-05-2005
Episode 69 (The Awful Truth) Air Date: 01-12-2005
Episode 70 (Ice) Air Date: 01-19-2005
Episode 71 (Welcome to Liberty Village) Air Date: 01-26-2005
Episode 72 (Nocturne) Air Date: 02-09-2005
Episode 73 (Detente) Air Date: 02-16-2005
Episode 74 (Echoes) Air Date: 02-23-2005
Episode 75 (A Man of His Word) Air Date: 03-02-2005
Episode 76 (The Index) Air Date: 03-09-2005
Episode 77 (The Road Home) Air Date: 03-16-2005
Episode 78 (The Orphan) Air Date: 03-23-2005
Episode 79 (Tuesday) Air Date: 03-30-2005
Episode 80 (Nightingale) Air Date: 04-06-2005
Episode 81 (Pandora) Air Date: 04-13-2005
Episode 82 (Another Mister Sloane) Air Date: 04-20-2005
Episode 83 (A Clean Conscience) Air Date: 04-27-2005
Episode 84 (Mirage) Air Date: 05-04-2005
Episode 85 (In Dreams…) Air Date: 05-11-2005
Episode 86 (The Descent) Air Date: 05-18-2005
Episode 87 (Search and Rescue) Air Date: 05-18-2005
Episode 88 (Before the Flood) Air Date: 05-25-2005

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Alias (Season 4) DVD.