California needs to "recognize the incontestable connection between health and wealth" and must "create an infrastructure in which people have access to choices that will improve their health," Carla Saporta and Rosa Martinez -- health program managers at the Greenlining Institute -- write in a Capitol Weekly opinion piece. "[W]e desperately need a health care work force that looks like California and that speaks the multiple languages Californians speak," they continue, adding, "These things are not luxuries, but part of our state's essential health infrastructure."