...you are probably correct, Guest. I do think the pivotal issue in the next ten years will be health care and health care costs if we don't blow up the world by February, not the price of oil.

I am in a much better position than you I agree, in that I can afford to buy some health insurance, assuming you can't afford to buy it or you are not eligible for medicare or medicaid: At least for the next year, although it will be inferior to the coverage I have now. And I am a female entrpreneur of sorts, a postergirl for the Republican party. Even though I owe my strength to the feminist movement and my own genetics.

I also think that even though the health care costs of AIDS has not hit us full force yet, we will follow Russia, China, Indonesia, and India. We're doomed, inotherwords, as a species. Anyone who thinks the Republicans can stop this is welcome to think it! I'll say goodby now eveyone, it's been a wonderful trip...but I am going to keep doing mental health care until I have to do something else....and music of course....hg