I really enjoyed the talk with Sean Nicholson. As someone who has never been too well-versed in healthcare nor has had to worry about my own status as a healthcare recipient, hearing various perspectives from those in attendance enlightened me to the struggles of both people who necessitate healthcare and those who provide it. I really respected the people who were comfortable talking about their own experiences with the troubles of finding reliable healthcare and how their struggles have affected their lives. One man described how he and his partner struggled with various life-long illnesses, and they have had to fight for access to care.

By the end of the talk, I felt even stronger that healthcare should be provided for by the federal government. This talk also reminded me of a talk with Elisabeth Rosenthal I attended last year. She described how other countries ran their healthcare system and the downfalls of American healthcare. The debate between public versus privatized sectors again persists; and while I have no solution for such a daunting question, I do err on the side of the left.