What are the health care issues facing Northeast Ohio?
My last stop was in Seattle, so this area is very, very different. When you’re dealing with an economy that is very Boeing-based, Microsoft-based, high-tech environment, that has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, one of the highest education levels, it’s just a different type of community. The market was pretty settled in terms of who was there and what they were doing. I don’t want to suggest that the market was divided up, but there were a handful of long-term traditional players who came to Seattle and stayed. Some of the big national firms came through, but didn’t stay. I think that the folks in Seattle were, and continue to be, very health-conscious and very sensitive to value vs. who has the lowest price. This market is very different and the challenges are around the industrial base. You could be talking to somebody in politics or banking and they would say the same thing. The volatility of the market is based on changes happening in the manufacturing and the
