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And coceo for the alliance for health reform, and for those of you not familiar with us, the alliance is a nonpartisan, not for profit organization. Weve been around for 25 years, and our mission is to inform policy makers and help policy leaders on the most pressing Health Policy issues and get you guys the foundations of Health Policy, the evidence, and the practice, and today we are here to talk about one of the most pressing Health Policy issues that has been making a lot of headlines recent...

Good afternoon. Welcome. Im sarah dash. Im president and coceo of the aligns for health reform. Those of you not familiar with us the aligns is a nonpartisan not for profit attention organization within been around 25 years. Our mission is to inform policy make areas eras and help policy leaders on the most pressing policy issues get you guys the foundations of Health Policy, the evidence and the practice. And today we are here to talk about one of the most pressing Health Policy issues that has...

Informsion is to policymakers and policy leaders of the most pressing issues and getting the foundation of Health Policy and the evidence and practice and today we here to talk about one of the most resident policy pressing issues and that is the Medicaid Program. Recent legislation would if it made major changes to the Medicaid Program and the discussion about the policy is not over. It will examine medicaid coverage, access to care and Health Outcomes and what might be next in the states and c...

With the failure to pass the bill in congress, some states are looking to expand medicaid, some additional states. Menstruates are talking to cms about what might be possible in the way theyre talking about waivers, what can be done. And so today well talk about our our goal for this panel is to both talk about where we are going into this next year, so where we are, what the aca did, where we are with medicaid, what is under discussion, and well talk about the considerations and possible implic...

The National Institute on drug abuse. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to this hearing called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is in a full on Opioid Crisis. It started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and then shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years, it has been a powerful pain medication used by patients with cancer or for those wit...

The National Institute on drug abuse. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to this hearing called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is in a full on Opioid Crisis. It started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and then shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years, it has been a powerful pain medication used by patients with cancer or for those wit...

Thank you very much. Could you please call item one on the budget and finance select committee agenda. Item number one a hearing to receive an update on the federal budget and any related impact to the city and request a Controllers Office and maters budget office. All right. Thank you for hearing this item. Several weeks ago we received an overview of federal fundingof federal funding to San Francisco as well as any anticipated impacts or risks to our cities department. These are the risk theyr...

Body. Is there a motion . I make a motion to pass on committee with positive recommendation. Well take that motion without objection. Thank you, next item. Agenda item number seven is a resolution authorize the recreation and Parks Department to apply for a grant of 245,000 from the california state dment of forestry and Fire Protection for state Greenhouse Gas reduction funding to carry out an urban forestry project. Good morning. Im [inaudible] with the recreation park capital division. Im her...

Body. Is there a motion . I make a motion to pass on committee with positive recommendation. Well take that motion without objection. Thank you, next item. Agenda item number seven is a resolution authorize the recreation and Parks Department to apply for a grant of 245,000 from the california state dment of forestry and Fire Protection for state Greenhouse Gas reduction funding to carry out an urban forestry project. Good morning. Im [inaudible] with the recreation park capital division. Im her...

And finance committee and the budget federal committee i am supervisor melia cohen supervisor of this committee. In the chamber today weve got supervisor sheehy kim, and fewer. Were going to be joined shortly with supervisor yee and supervisor tang. The clerk of the board is linda wong and john carroll today. I want to thank phil jackson an injury in stark from sfgov tv for assisting us with todays broadcast. Mr. Clerk any announcements . Yes. Please, sounds all cell phones and electronic device...