Jim

BAKERSFIELD

Over the past six years our employer’s health insurance has doubled. We don’t want to lose the coverage we have, but it’s getting expensive to maintain it. Last year alone the costs went up 22% from the previous year.

We chose to keep the same health insurance, but it took months of negotiations. If costs continue to rise we might have to start dropping our benefits to lower them – I don’t want to see that happen.

Everyone should be provided with affordable, quality healthcare. If everyone had health insurance, all of our costs would go down.