The book clearly shows the difference in adequate and inadequate healthcare, in which the Bane’s family’s healthcare was unfortunately inadequate. Though the healthcare was inadequate, Robert situation was potentially better than Ms. Jackson due to the fact that kidney failure is the only chronic disease that makes nearly all Americans automatically eligible for Medicare regardless of age. Robert also finally found out the true reason his kidney failed the first time, because of glomerulusclerosis. Due to his constant drug use this may have caused his kidneys fail again, now he had been placed on the wait on a list for a kidney with the average wait time being 13.9 months; which also had to be a blood match, and people waiting on the list for
