The spiraling costs of health care and medical insurance are not only a burden on  business, they are also an increasing burden on individual citizens.   Increasing members of our middle class are frustrated by the rising costs of health insurance and co-payments, even if they receive such coverage from their employers.  The rising insurance company bureaucracy often stymies and attempts to deny expensive treatments, even if they are for  life-threatening illnesses.  As I noted in my proposals for reducing health care costs for businesses, I will also seek ways to make health care affordable for everyone and reduce the burden that is especially borne by the middle class.   Further, I will also seek ways to ensure that our young people and senior citizens get the care that they deserve. 

I am  especially concerned with a  proposed  budget  cut in the In-Home Supportive Services Program.  This beneficial  program makes it  possible for some 72,000 Californians who are elderly, blind or disabled to live at home instead of being placed in a nursing home or long-term care facility.   This program already is paying the workers very low wages!!    To cut this program is a false economic savings to say nothing of the moral inappropriateness of  it all!!!  The measure of our humanity is the degree to which we take care of those who are less fortunate among us.