Assisting individuals with federal and state benefit programs. Most navigators are nonprofit, nonpartisan Community Service providers and have effective privacy provisions in place. Those are the facts and the show good news. You talking your Opening Statement about the navigators were going from door to door and that is a concern. Thats why we have to have the real navigators in place so they can sign people up. Just yesterday hhs, doj and the ftc announced a massive antifraud effort. I would suggest we all Work Together to stop any kind of fraud in the system. With that i want to yield the balance of my time to the representative castor. I think the Ranking Member for yielding time. The enthusiasm i am hearing back home from so many of my neighbors, particularly when it comes to now the bar against discrimination for our neighbors that have preexisting conditions. Just over the past few weeks i met with Community Leaders and multiple sclerosis and diabetes, hiv aids, cancer that now
Is but heres a point that people miss. Seven other times the president has decided himself that parts of the law were unimportant and the law he side in fact was not going to endure. What about the preexisting Condition Program . This law was sold on the backs of people with preexisting conditions across this country and yet when someone showed up on february 1st of this year to enroll in the pcip program, they were told, sorry, sister, the program is closed. For 11 months people with preexisting conditions who were promised relief are simply wandering the country what they were supposed to do. Shop exchanges put off to 2015. Delaying final contracts with contractors. Delaying the employer mandate. Removing outofpocket caps. No premium information. This was promised to me by the administrator of cms in july in this committee that i would have this information by september 15. Mr. Cohen we are going the long way now to september 15th. Go to the website on healthcare. Gov. Come back and
Television or roof you may submit your Public Comment by mail. And tell be forward to the committee and included part of official files this meeting is recordd and available sfgov. Org thank you. We call this meeting to order it is thursday august 25, 2022. We will start with roll call. Number catalano. Here. Member denning. Absent. Vice chair dantonio. Absent. Member friedenbach. Present officer leadbetter. Here. Member miller. Absent. Member reggio. Here. Chair williams. Present. We have kwoer and up move into our land acknowledgment. We acknowledge we are on the unseed home land. No audio. As the stewards of the land in accordance with their translations the Ramaytush Ohlone never forgotten their responsibilities as the care takers. As well as for all people reside in their traditional territory we benefit from living and working on their home land. Pay respects acknowledging the ancestors and irrelevant tifs of the Ramaytush Ohlone upon community and affirming their rights as first
Refused to spell out what you do in the future and expect people to give you a blank check. You can sit and wait for the british people to come back to you, but dont hold your breath. [applause] if there is one area all of the parties need to put politics aside, it is europe. Britains place in it. The conservatives have this bizarre view that we can turn our back on europe and still lead in the world. As if we will be taken seriously by the american, chinese, indian, all the big superpowers of the modern world when we are isolated and irrelevant in our own backyard. The truth is, we stand tall in washington, in beijing, in delhi, in brussels, paris, berlin. I know it. I have worked there. I have seen with my own eyes what can be achieved for britain by engaging with our neighbors and building the Worlds Largest borderless Single Market a which millions of jobs in our country now depend. Of course the European Union needs reform. No one is saying it doesnt. We cannot allow the contorted
In 1989 lomaprieta earthquake altered the timeline and cost for renewal of Fishermans Wharf. Pier 45 the planned location for Seafood Center suffered significant earthquake damage and chased away the last number of dwindling company doing fishing at the port. The cost skyrocketed and for a moment it seemed there may no longer be any fish at Fishermans Wharf. Undaunted, we began a 14 million earthv quake repair project at the wharf at pier 45 which when completed turned into dee cap it seismically pier into a receiving processing center. I can recall pundits at the time saying the industry was too far gone and it would never come back to San Francisco. Even if we fixed pier 45. Luckily, when the facility opened in 1995, the receiving and processes and companies flocked back to Fishermans Wharf and the sheds were unleashed to capacity almost immediately. Today they remain at capacity with over 100,000 square feet of modern fish handling distribution space to 20 Fish Processors and receiv