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Welcome, everyone, to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Special Meeting for friday, june 20th, 2014. My name is mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. I am joined by supervisors e mar, john avalos, scott wiener and london breed. Want to thank the members of sfgtv covering this meeting jeff smith and mark bunch as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. Victor young. Apologize for that. Victor young. Sorry, mr. Young. I need to turn off my phone also. M...

Announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 8th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you. So, before we begin and call these items, well read a script about today. Today is Public Comment day. I want to thank everybody in the audience for coming. The purpose of this hearing is to hear testimony on the p...

Right now. Take a look at what happened in asia overnight, as well. A lot of these headlines hitting as japans market was opening there. That was the first sign that argentina was not going to be able to make its payments. As you can see right now, the nikkei closed down by about 25 points. The shanghai, though, was up by close to 1 . Among todays tests for the u. S. Markets, we have economic numbers, more earnings that will be hitting. At 8 30 eastern time, we will be getting the weekly jobless...

Television for serious readers. Coming up next hearing on the Health Care Law and federal subsidies for insurance providers. This is an hourandahalf. The chair will recognize an opening statement. Todays hearing is once again about protecting taxpayers and consumers from the consequences of the Affordable Care act, mainly the giveaway of taxpayer dollars to ensures. First, section 1342 of the Affordable Care act created what are known as risc corridors, a mechanism that will protect Insurance Co...

Unless otherwise stated. Okay, thank you. So, before we begin and call these items, well read a script about today. Today is Public Comment day. I want to thank everybody in the audience for coming. The purpose of this hearing is to hear testimony on the proposed appropriation and annual salary ordinances and our mayors proposed budget. Please be advised that as chair of the committee we are going to recognize the following protocols to ensure that all members have an opportunity to speak and be...

Expense. If they live far from a va hospital, 40 miles is the agreedupon distance, you will secretary the. A. Ability to fire senior managers accused of mismanagement. They can obviously fire those who are ill performing. Timekes a very long because of federal rules about letting employees go and their process to appeal. This was one of the reasons the controversy started in the first place. V. A. More to come on this deal in the house and senate. Did address the immediate crisis of veterans bei...

The issue of wait times, when it comes to emergent care, canadians are not waiting substantially longer than our peers in other countries including the United States. Unfortunately, it was true that has not been the case for medical care such as nondiagnostic imaging. A great deal of work was underway to address this challenge. And indeed, waits have been decreasing over the last decade. It is important to note that moving away from a single payer model would likely exacerbate our wait time chal...

Sfgtv covering this meeting jeff smith and mark bunch as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. Victor young. Apologize for that. Victor young. Sorry, mr. Young. I need to turn off my phone also. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Yes. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the july 8th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, th...

Allow for individuals in line an opportunity to get in their queue. Please note we have overflow Seating Available in the north light court downstairs. If you would like to continue watching the proceedings. And if you prefer not to wait, as we have all week, we have set up a computer in the clerk of the boards office, room 244, to allow individuals to send written comments to the committee for their consideration. Again, i want to thank everybody in advance for your patience during this process...

Performance is called avoidable mortality. That is in a Good Health Care system, women should not die in child birth. People should not die of tuberculosis. People should not die of aschemic Heart Disease. People should not die of cancers that can be cured. And when we look at that, im embarrassed to say that we come out in the United States as 19 and the french come out as number 1, i repeat, number 1. That is a fact that cannot be ignored. It must be addressed. It was written up in health affa...