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Been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the Latino Community and i also work with Maternity Child Health or labor and delivery, so im here today for personal and professional reasons. If i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. I personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how Important Health care is, especially to families of migrant descent. From...

All, we dont have medi cal yet, the aca is more about access to insurance, healthy San Francisco is about access to health care, so lets leave it in tact. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the Latino Community and i also work with Maternity Child Health or labor and delivery, so im here today for personal and professional reasons. If i can leave ...

Sa ns from paid 250 dollars of this bill, which if he had to pay the full amount would have put him in dire straits, he will be mandated to buy insurance now, but with his income, he would be able to afford a high deductible plan if he can afford any plan at all, we dont have medi cal yet, the aca is more about access to insurance, healthy San Francisco is about access to health care, so lets leave it in tact. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco ...

My name is ali and ive been a registered nurse here for 36 years now, to consider weakening any part of healthy San Francisco now when there is so much thats unknown about the Affordable Care act is concerning. The employer spending requirement needs to remain in place and thats really important. I have a story i would like to tell you, im sure we all have stories but this is a friend of my daughter, a 28 yearold full Time Restaurant worker would was born and raised in San Francisco, he was in a...

Insurance, healthy San Francisco has the incentive to cut hours as well as to provide Health Insurance to the many San Francisco residents who will not quality under the Affordable Care act. All residents deserve health care. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Good evening, thank you for your time. My names kathy, im a part time teacher with the city college of San Francisco and im a proud member of the activist committee with jobs with justice, as a teacher, i want to talk about our ...

Pay the full amount would have put him in dire straits, he will be mandated to buy insurance now, but with his income, he would be able to afford a high deductible plan if he can afford any plan at all, we dont have medi cal yet, the aca is more about access to insurance, healthy San Francisco is about access to health care, so lets leave it in tact. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for...

San francisco is the way to go, were not going to give into the growing pressures of taking investment out of the community and say this is an antipoverty program, we Want Health Care to resound and a right of all san franciscans and all californians, so were asking for your leadership. Thank you, sir, next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors, thank you so much for being here at this important hearing, my name is ali and ive been a registered nurse here for 36 years now, to consider weakening a...

Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the Latino Community and i also work with Maternity Child Health or labor and delivery, so im here today for personal and professional reasons. If i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. I personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how Importan...

That down until there is a replacement for it. We have other members of ours in psychiatry at sf general, one has work witched the jail psych unit, he practices in the community, he say that is many of his patients receive their meds through healthy sf, if we cut healthy sf, were going to be throwing a lot more people off of their psych medications and this results in yet another psych cut to a city that has been cutting care to psych for at least the past decade. Thank you. 30 seconds, my apolo...

San francisco general, he suffered a severe concussion, had multiple abrasions, needed dozens stitches in his knee, his helmet saved him from more serious injury, he was unable to work to work for several weeks, he received a bill for over 32 thousand dollars for his care which is more than what he made in a year, luckily he was enrolled in healthy sa ns from paid 250 dollars of this bill, which if he had to pay the full amount would have put him in dire straits, he will be mandated to buy insur...