Supplies, and work orders of other city services, such as department of Human Resources, Controllers Office services, and rent. We have six f. T. E. S with the Directors Office vacant since march of this year, and we have an open grant funded position that youre not seeing in this chart, just vacated last week that were working on filling quickly. We, like all City Departments were instructed to propose a 10 reduction. We proposed initial reductions amounting to 959,000 annually, and this was an across the board proposed reduction of almost 12 to our communitybased grant fees. Realizing the impact of these grant fees to the vulnerable populations and the populations these serve, the Mayors Office asked us to submit some lower alternative reduction scenarios. The Mayors Service accepted our approximately 7 reduction, which would come from the departments genderbased balance intervention program. Understanding that all of our grantees work serves vulnerable and underserved communities, t
2027488002 and the line for uninsured callers is 2027488003. We always welcome your comments on twitter and facebook. Send us a tweet at cspanwj and post your thoughts on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. As we mentioned, we have talked about a lot of issues this week. This morning it is health care. This summer shows a lot of people they surveyed were thinking the same thing, the top issue facing america today, health care. Surveyed. Se carl cannon writing health care has emerged for the top issue for as the top issue for american voters. Any Political Party ignoring this topic or misreading the publics mood does so at its own peril. The new survey asked respondents to rank the policy issue they consider the most important to americas future. Just a little bit more from the real clear poll, some detail and what they found in the area of theth care 28 think Health Care System in america is broken, we need a completely new system. 39 of those surveyed said the Health Care System is not wor
Medicare for all. Maura calsyn, how much traction does it have for Bernie Sanders and others who support medicare for all . Guest i think the first question is, what do viewers and people mean by medicare for all . There are a lot of different visions for that. Reallyhink that what is gaining traction among the democratic electorate, i think, is this idea that the Affordable Care act was a good starting point. How do we build on that . There are some people who do not have coverage. People have a lot of concerns about outofpocket costs. And the medicare for all as envisioned by senator sanders is one of the different puzzles out there. I think it is one of the different proposals out there. Is Bernie Sanders plan, there are other medical plans. Host politico had a piece on where the candidates stood on health care. At the time they had 23 candidates, but it has been winnowed down somewhat. All of them are for the expansion of the aca, expanding the Affordable Care act coverage. Ippolit
Health care system. So far we have heard a lot from democrats. The biggest item, the biggest is what is called medicare for all. Maura calsyn, how much traction does it have for Bernie Sanders and others who support medicare for all . Guest i think the first question is, what do viewers and people mean by medicare for all . There are a lot of different visions for that. Reallyhink that what is gaining traction among the democratic electorate, i think, is this idea that the Affordable Care act was a good starting point. How do we build on that . There are some people who do not have coverage. People have a lot of concerns about outofpocket costs. And the medicare for all as envisioned by senator sanders is one of the different puzzles out there. I think it is one of the different proposals out there. Is Bernie Sanders plan, there are other medical plans. Host politico had a piece on where the candidates stood on health care. At the time they had 23 candidates, but it has been winnowed d
Operations budget for the state department and the u. S. Agency for International Development. Committee members asked about the high number of personnel vacancies within the department and hiring from a diverse pool of candidates. This is about an hour and a half. The subcommittee will come to order. We meet today to discuss the state department and u. S. I. D. Fy 2020 operations budget. Without objection, all members may have five days to submit statements, questions, extraneous materials for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. Ill now make my opening statement, and then turn it over to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Ive noticed that the republicans are a little bit faster getting over here after votes. I want to thank the Ranking Member mr. Zeldin members of the subcommittee and our witnesses for joining us for todays hearing for the fiscal year 2020 operations budget, also want to thank the witnesses for being accommodating knowing that our vo