Hoffman Ch.6-Epilogue

Starting with chapter six, Hoffman discusses Entitlements such as medicare and medicaid. the chapter itself talks about a lot of logistics and details, but the main theme I could draw from this chapter and the topics discussed was that it needs to be clearly stated and realized by Americans is that entailments are not rights. I could take this blog post and list all the specifics that are mentioned throughout some of the chapters, but for chapters six through seven and some of the others, I feel like health care and entitlements are the main focuses. The government involvement for all of these medical organizations is what makes them so controversial and all the money that is spent and lost with these organizations. But the other controversies come into play because these programs help people and the moral/American side of people see that as a reason to support them, but its more than that. Chapter eight discusses emergency rooms and epidemics. The cost is a major theme throughout this chapter and also epidemics such as AIDs epidemic in 1981 that terrified the American people. In chapter nine discusses how healthcare is unsteady and there have been many reforms and changes that political leaders have tried to make and healthcare is still controversial and unsteady.