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Having started and owned two small businesses, I know what a challenge it is to keep up with the rising costs of your employees' healthcare premiums.

What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.

It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.