Brasfield: 3-5

     Brasfield makes very valid points in the third, fourth, and fifth chapters of this book. With a growing generation of people getting sicker, with diabetes, cancer, and obesity, it is hard to lower the cost of healthcare. These illnesses greatly affect a lot of people at young ages, and as we grow older, cost increase in contrast. Medicare, which is used to help fund healthcare for the elderly, is currently at a place of decreasing. If people of our generation are becoming more and more sick with things that are becoming common, but are at high risk in health, it is very hard to say that we will still have Medicare once we are able to receive it ourselves. What changes will the government be able to make in order to keep Medicare around for decades to come? Tax! The more money taken out of individuals paychecks, the more funding can be brought forth for medical insurance to those who are in need of it.