people. It's non-medical care doing things like household tasks and bathing and changing diapers that allow the client to live at home instead of a nursing facility. The great majority of our patients pay via State Medicaid programs, where the reimbursement is fixed. Most of our caregivers, who are not nurses currently make somewhere in the neighborhood $11 an hour, and the business barely, barely is making a profit. If California goes to a statewide $15/hour wage, we, along with many other providers will have to close our agencies there unless California dramatically increases the Medicaid reimbursement for this service. I picture other similar situations repeated over and over in many different industries.

These are the kinds of situations that I just don't think lawmakers take into account when they make these decisions.