While I enjoyed Dr. Brawley's lecture, I don't think he really offered much more than a lots of good data. Instead of supplying possible fixes for our nation's dismal healthcare system, he analyzed data that many people already know (people of lower socioeconomic class get worse healthcare) and expressed it slightly differently to make his points. For example, his data that show that people with stage 2 cancer and insurance are more likely to survive than uninsured people with stage 1 cancer simply underscores his point that poorer sick people die more frequently, as if saving lives is as easy as insuring more people. In effect, it probably is, but he failed to point to any means of fixing our system. Additionally, I felt that much of what he covered was motivated by race, as I note in his example that blacks and hispanics are sicker, less insured, and die more frequently as a result of diseases like cancer more than whites do, while he validates this point by identifying race as a social concept rather than a physical one. Ultimately, while he is certainly very knowledgeable and a good speaker, much of his lecture was an elementary data analysis from the point of view of a doctor, which failed to come to any helpful conclusions.