Chapter 6 & 7

In chapter 6, I feel like there is a lot less of the information overloading as in some of the other chapters.  There is a very nice balance of his personal accounts sprinkled with, what seem to be observations or fleeting thoughts about the country or of the situation he is currently writing about.  I also noticed that he groups all of the information in small 1-2 page sections that encompass and focus on a certain subject area.  These sections all seem to flow together very nicely and break the chapters up.

In chapter 7 he focuses a lot more on using the information of other people instead of his own experiences.  He still incorporates a many stories from different sources, as I believe it would be ridiculous for him to experience every single thing that he talks about in the book.  He starts by mentioning the health care stampede and strings it to his own but his is a different experience at a different doctor; both experiences deal with doctors though.  Then he recounts hotels, and the TV repair people, one from his perspective and one from a friend’s perspective.  Both of the chapters had less emphasis on the nitty gritty details, facts and numbers.  It was a nice change of pace where I could focus on the concepts and ideas he was putting forward as opposed to try and decipher and make sense of the data dump.  When he mentions himself or includes one of his stories, I find it as a more personable approach to the writing, where it shows that he actually does go through some of these conditions and isn’t one of those people that just stands back and just reports.