Assess Your Day in Shades of Blue

I attended a very interesting lecture lecture titled "Are We Really Ready for Healthcare Reform?" during lunch today. The presenter spoke on changes in the field of medicine as well as changes in the way the American public believes they should be treated as both patients and consumers. It was all very informative until the last ten minutes of the talk, when the speaker went absolutely bonkers. She said that in order to fix the healthcare system, we as providers must start thinking out of the box. She encouraged us to do this by showing us crazy slides like the following:

Question:
What everyday word can you get by removing six letters from the following?
BSAIXNLAETTNEARS

Answer:
BSAIXNLAETTNEARS
BSAIXNLAETTNEARS

Question:
Two women look exactly the same. They are the same age, have the same birthday, were raised by the same parents, and live at the same address. Yet, they are not twins. How is this possible?

Answer:
They're two out of three triplets.

Question:
Two men play five games of chess. Both win three games. There are no ties. How is this possible?

Answer:
They weren't playing each other.

And so on and so forth. Basically, she gave our brains a really good workout and managed to distract us from the fact that she never gave us an answer to the original question: are we really ready for healthcare reform? After an hour of lecture, I still have no idea. Sigh.