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Mike Estupinian
My wife and I pay $1350 per month in health care premiums. We have paid in the past three years over $43,000 just for coverage; this does not include deductibles or other out of pocket expenses. We can no longer continue to pay this premium cost. Our other debts are increasing in order to pay our premiums. Very shortly my wife and I will be in the ranks of others with no health care. We have been trying to keep our insurance but I just don’t know how I can do this any longer. I am fifty-seven and my wife is fifty-four years old. |
 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.
  71 percent of Californians are worried about the rising costs of health care premiums, deductibles, co-payments. A similar majority (71%) is worried about being able to pay the costs of their health care premiums, deductibles and co-payments. Concerns about having access to quality doctors and health service services (68%) or having to wait or put off getting needed care (67%) are also cited by greater than two in three voters statewide.
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