It reminded me of the conversation in Trout Fishing, where Brautigan meets a retired doctor from Utah and his family, living in an RV by a fishing lake in Idaho. The doctor says he saves more money each day not paying his taxes than he could ever make as a doctor. He quit his practice when the state of Utah wanted him to work for them, instead of for profit.
I think people who want to become rich should not become doctors.
I wonder what the effect will be on the stock market of cutting the profits of the HMO's.
As well as healthcare, I think people in this country deserve not to have to work more than 30-40 hours per week. There is a basic lack of decency in not having life-saving treatment readily available, and not having time to sleep and think.
At least two children's books inspired Ms. Apple Planting. One was about a seed carried by a bird, that sprouted into a mysterious plant. The people in the village cared for it, and it started to produce magnificent fruit. The people cared so much about the tree that they built a house around it, and birds lived in its branches. The second book is fairly well known. The Little House in the Country was built on a hill, with apple trees all around, until the big city encroached on it. Then, the great-grandson of the man who built the house found it, and transported it out to the country, to a hill covered in apple trees. Ms. Apple Planting, like Mr. Trout Fishing, harks back to a simpler existence. I wondered very briefly if they would get along together, but it was obvious they each had too many of their own problems for that to last.
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