I’m Barry Rabinowitz from Sherman Oaks, California.  I have a pituitary tumor.  This has made it very difficult for me to hold a full-time job.  I live on a small pension.  I can’t afford to buy health insurance, even if I’m mandated to do so, because I live from month to month on what I have.  And even if I wanted to buy it, no insurance company will give it to me, because my pre-existing condition requires both medication and constant testing.  I pay for things out of my own pocket and barely survive doing so.  Health care reform for people like me is a mandatory thing, because the choice for many people is survival or just starving, and this is not a choice Californians should have to make.  And California has to do something about it, even if it means cutting into the profits of the insurance companies.