Beyonce's Birth Lap of Luxury (via Yahoo!)
I don't know what it is about this article but it boils me to no end. I understand that she is a superstar and that she is concerned for the welfare of her child, but covering security cameras in a hospital is not only a liability, but also, by definition, makes the hospital unsecured. It is not just famous kids that get kidnapped--normal people's kids go missing all the time. And psychos, particularly ones who are drawn to newborns, love to fester around nurseries (please see, Babies Stolen from their Beds via msnbc.com and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children). The rates have dramatically decreased over the years--all due to surveillance at nurseries and pediatric floors.
If they wanted an "experience", why didn't they bring the hospital to them?! Employ a special team from across the nation, and have it where you could fully control the environment. People might argue that she needed to be at the hospital since she was receiving a c-section, but my money is on the procedure being elective. This activity of hers also negates the charitable works that she's done over the years. Stopping children's hunger = important, but giving medical personnel and parents full access to these children who need care = not important?
The thing that probably bothers me most is that father trying to see his two premature babies--hospitals, if you had a clue to what insurances actually reimbursed you, you (yes, I'm personifying hospitals) would know that those two preemie babies would equate in more than $2M in revenue while Blue Ivy gained you a measily $1.3M. If the hospital looked at revenue per square footage, they would see that those preemies rake in even more money than the Carter child.
I don't know... I guess I just don't like hospitals treating patients like shit.
P.S. I still like their music, but this has definitely dampened anything they have to say about raising the poor's status in our society. It's just a little too, "Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others" for me.