If the government ultimately refuses to step in, experts expect an increasing number of big insurance companies to offer coverage anyway -- as a few have begun doing since last fall, at very high prices.
With the smallest gestures -- the tilt of his body, the lift of a hand, a quickly shuttered glance -- he conveys his intense but discreet yearning for the woman who ultimately refuses him.
He becomes a martyr, which may be laudable from a Christian perspective (although he is not martyred on account of his Christianity, but simply because he ultimately refuses to defend himself), but which does not show him to be particularly successful within his own world.
Supported initially by the father of the child, a married businessman who ultimately refuses to leave his wife, she finds herself falling for the taxi driver who picks her up from the airport, a Chinese-born former doctor who is driving cabs after being unable to get a medical licence in the US.
She makes an appearance, but she ultimately refuses to testify.
Jess ends up occupying a middle ground, identifying simply as a 'he-she.' Raymond's major concern with this trajectory is that, Jess ultimately refuses self-identification as a woman (1994, xxxii).
