Coalition were an amazing coalition that doesnt give up thank you you yourself work and id like to talk about since its january 2015 the seconding kickoff the first was to make sure that the stakeholders revolved involved we see the information about this and really included the mailings september to all tobacco retailers a fact sheets on e cigarettes and the guidelines for sale of Tobacco Products and it means to have a how much of selgd only stores that are considered manufacturing and preparing did sheet for transit or Human Resources business successors and Law Enforcement and schools then for the public a Public Information campaign so 3 points basically informing san franciscans about the new cigarette the new e cigarette ordinance and reinforcing our smoking laws on the book educating the public that e cigarettes there is a lot of confusion and encouraging the smokers and e cigarettes smokers to quit also primd people its possible to quit keep trying theres a summer brainstormin
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the San Francisco Budget Finance Committee for wednesday march 25, 2015, my name is mark farrell ill be chairing this committee im joined by commissioner chan and Supervisor Scott Wiener i believe well be joined that i supervisor mar and supervisor norman yee i want to thank the clerk clerk linda wong and members of the sfgovtv mark and scott madam clerk, any announcements . Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 31st board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated okay. Thank you madam clerk call item one. Item one hearing to review the Health Insurance trend of reclassifying certain life saving drugs including aids drugs thereby increasing the cost of access for those drugs for patients. Thank you madam clerk this item was sponsored by supervisor wiener. Thank you very much mr. Chairman and scheduling this colleagues today will be discussing did gro
He showed up to get his monthly drug and he showed me a photo its beyond me why Insurance Companies financial incentives it strikes me it is illegal. I have a little bit of Additional Information that gets to that point here. Okay. So you laid out the speciality tiering as you stated supervisor wiener they may violate the Affordable Health care act provisions for protecting people that have preexisting conditions and maybe discriminatory and for patient it puts a substantial financial strain on people and the costs cannot can be unexpected may be a person needs a drug for a disease and its on a stoplight tier the health plan changed the policy and the cost increased dramatically as youve stated cost effects whether a person can afford their diner or medication theyll probably buy the food they need and this gets to your other point buyouts action of plan for plan the initiation of treatment with initiation of treatment for diseases coming sooner and in the stance of chronic deceased th
A drawing as a quote unquote specialist drugs instead of a a patient paying a typical copay of 1b or 25 or 50 conflict of interests a month the patient in addition must pay a significant percentage of the drug when means a copay insurance of 6,000 or more the explosion important drug costs our hiv and cancer and Rheumatoid Arthritis denies the folks the Insurance Benefits and remain on those medications that is clear here for many most people that havetions and need access to life saving drugs that requiring them to pay six or eight hundred or 6,000 a month is the same as saying they cant have the drug a denial of assess for hiv patient for example for many people that means going off our medications that results in serious ionize and death reducing the access to hiv medication in addition to harming the hiv positive people leads to increased infections because people on medication are less likely to pass on their ill in essence theyll be less healthy and get for sick and today and inc
Cost medication i think more of the issues are being seen oral medication that dont require special handling or special knowledge by the patient. So basically an Insurance Companies will say this drug is extensive so youre going to have to pay 40 percent of the drug costs. Thats right its not just health plans but the means to an end has the same definition. It is like baffling i suspect im preaching to the choir to say shocking that Insurance Companies you think you buy insurance so our covered and then all of a sudden i mean literally someone be sent me a photo with a Cash Register and he showed up to get his monthly drug and he showed me a photo its beyond me why Insurance Companies financial incentives it strikes me it is illegal. I have a little bit of Additional Information that gets to that point here. Okay. So you laid out the speciality tiering as you stated supervisor wiener they may violate the Affordable Health care act provisions for protecting people that have preexisting