Today’s lesson consisted of a follow up from the last week’s talk on the Housing Authority and lesson on health care reform. The problem--as I discovered--with health care reform is that nobody really has any clue as to what is going on with it, the issue is almost impossible to understand as of this moment in time. What we could relay however was the debate that is raging in congress, some recent proposals, some passed bills, and the current standings of health care. When we were discussing what to do for this week’s lesson we decided on this topic because of how pertinent it is to many homeless people--often being the cause or a contributing factor to their homeless state. The lesson turned out fairly well, and was something that most residents had a very vested interest in so they asked questions and participated in discussions about what should be done. What surprised me was that one of the residents thought that if we were to address one group in need at a time for gaining public health coverage, she thought that inner city children, at-risk mothers and some other groups should be covered before people such as herself--a middle aged person in need of surgery for both her and her children. It was just overall a very interesting class because I though more of the residents would have a strong bias and hate against the health care issue, but all were very open minded and saw both sides of the issue very clearly.