According to Josh Richman from Inside Bay Area, California Insurance Commissioner reportedly does not support AB 2578. Poizner's spokesman said the following of the commissioner's views on this bill:

"He believes that additional bureaucracy envisioned in the bill doesn’t deal with the fundamental problem of health care — rising medical costs. Steve is committed to lowering healthcare costs, but President Obama demonstrated with his healthcare bill that he is not the least bit interested in lowering healthcare costs for consumers,” Agen said in an e-mailed reply to my query."