Gene Sue
I’m involved with business, and one of the things that I’m really concerned about is, of course, the rising cost of the insurance that our company provides for our employees. I’m concerned about government intervention into that agenda, those issues, and I’m just really concerned about that because of employees. And we’ve been doing it for a long time now, and I really believe that we maybe should work on—you know, the insurance companies operate on a profit, and I know there are some things that are said about people over profits, but they’re in business, and I believe that maybe we should be working on something to the effect of making sure that they receive a profit so that they can operate in California effectively and economically.
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There is Widespread Support for Reform
 81% of voters agree with the statement "it should be public policy that government guarantee that all Californians have access to affordable health care insurance or other health care coverage."
Source: Field Poll, "California Voter Views of the Health Care System (Part 1 of 2)," January 3, 2007.
 HMO premiums rose nearly 50 percent between 1997 and 2002. The cost of employer-based health care continues to outpace both inflation and wage growth.
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