Against
- Jamie Court, president, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights: "A vote to force a family of two making $54,000 per year to pay whatever health insurers want to charge is an outrageous gift to the medical-insurance complex that can only be explained by the potential for even bigger contributions to keep politicians in office longer."
- Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Association: "This is not health care reform. It's a hijacking of the yearning of the public for genuine overhaul of our health care system."
- Alan Nakanishi (R-Lodi), vice chair, Assembly Health Committee: "Passing a massive government takeover of health care, without any idea of how much it will cost or how we will pay for it, is a risky step that will jeopardize the quality health care relied upon by millions of Californians."