Next speaker. Hi, supervisors, my name is judy and im a resident of the easier neighborhood and im part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the Health Care Services Master Plan Task force. As was said earlier, a lot of companies are cutting their employees hours because they dont want to pay for health care, thats not fair and i dont want that to happen in San Francisco, our local law limits employers to do this because they have to put aside for their Workers Health care based on each hour the employer has worked and my family cant afford private insurance, this is a lot of the case of other Health Care Workers in San Francisco who work in restaurants or retail, they need Health Care Security ordinance so everybody can have access to Affordable Quality Health care. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is wayne lee, ive been a resident of San Fr
Human right and everyone should have the right to Access Health care regardless of their income. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call a few more names. calling speaker names . Next speaker. Hi, supervisors, my name is judy and im a resident of the easier neighborhood and im part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the Health Care Services Master Plan Task force. As was said earlier, a lot of companies are cutting their employees hours because they dont want to pay for health care, thats not fair and i dont want that to happen in San Francisco, our local law limits employers to do this because they have to put aside for their Workers Health care based on each hour the employer has worked and my family cant afford private insurance, this is a lot of the case of other Health Care Workers in San Francisco who work in restaurants or retail, they need Health Care Security ordinance so everybody can have access t
Health care and businesses and instead businesses should also share the profits by helping the workers get health care. The Health Care Security ordinance would secure that more workers would get health care and health care is the human right and everyone should have the right to Access Health care regardless of their income. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call a few more names. calling speaker names . Next speaker. Hi, supervisors, my name is judy and im a resident of the easier neighborhood and im part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the Health Care Services Master Plan Task force. As was said earlier, a lot of companies are cutting their employees hours because they dont want to pay for health care, thats not fair and i dont want that to happen in San Francisco, our local law limits employers to do this because they have to put aside for their Workers Health care based on each hour the employer has
Law that occupies the entire field of an area and when the federal government adopts the law that occupies an entire field, congress may say local jurisdiction, you cant meddle with this subject, in this case, the Affordable Care act allows local jurisdictions like San Francisco to adopt ordinances like the health care ordinance. Thank you for that clarification. Thank you very much, why dont we go on to Public Comment and we have a large number of people here, so normally i give each speaker which is the maximum which is 3 minutes, but i dont want to lose our quorum, so we will limit to 2 minutes, so why dont i read off a few names. calling speaker names . Good afternoon. Im ken jacobs, im the chair of the uc berkeley labor and education and one of the coprinciple investigators for the simulation of market and is the primary model being used for projections in how Health Coverage will change in california as a result of the Affordable Care act and has been used by state, counties and
Programs like ours, i too rely on healthy San Francisco for Preventative Care and prescriptions as i do not have Health Insurance because i cannot afford Health Insurance, i dont qualify for Health Insurance because i am considered to be at risk, i am a Breast Cancer survivor, when the Affordable Care act is fully implemented, that doesnt mean that folks of me like the [inaudible] it is very lieb likely that we wont be able to afford to buy insurance through the marketplace. My husband has not worked steadily since the 20092010 financial crash. For us, healthy San Francisco has been a got sent and again, i am not quite sure that well be able to afford Health Insurance without feeling some sort of financial burden. My biggest concern however is for those folks who are not eligible at all for Health Insurance because of their immigration statsz, this is inhumane, another reason why we must keep healthy San Francisco in place. I wanted to make sure that you did know that i am here today n