Screeria nigeria. R Sherrod Brown who talks about the Affordable Care act. This is an hour and 15 minutes. So this session is the future of Medicaid Expansion and the Childrens Health Insurance Program. And what we want you to get out of this is the best messaging for promoting and protecting the Medicaid Expansion and extending funding for the Childrens Health Insurance Program, which were just going to keep calling c. H. I. P. Let me take a moment to introduce our two speakers. On the far left is bruce leslie, the president of first focus, which is a fabulous childrens Advocacy Organization here in d. C. Many of you know bruce. Bruce has more than 20 years of Public Policy experience at all levels of government. And a demonstrated commitment to making childrens lives better. Bruce, we came to know bruce from his 12 years working on capitol hill on health care education, human services, childrens issues. Most recently he served as the Senior Health policy adviser on the Senate Finance
To tied u. N. Committee grilled vatican officials over allegations they protected pedophile priests at the expense of victims they conceded the church needs to do more to deal with the scammeddal. But denied accusations ive cover up. Its not a poll to encourage cover ups, but this goes against the truth. Al jazerra simon mcgregorwood has more on todays hearing in geneva. Reporter for many that was a chance for the vatican to display different attitude and was a very public form. The session opened from a statement from the vatican tell greg. The the actions taken by local churches presents a frame bourque that when properly applied will help eliminate the occurrence of child sexual beus by clergy and other church personnel. Reporter an attempt to reassure. But didnt convince many. The question came thick and fast. Whawhat are you doing with remarked to 39 of or convention which refers to reparations both psychological and financial to children who are have been victims of six uma beus.
Sentences that acknowledge that it has created job opportunities, enabled City Residents to utilize a greater supply than provided by the taxi industry alone and easier entry into jobs for the taxicab industry, more flexibility and better pay. Better pay, more flexibility, easier entry jobs, and more supply. So did you analyze the specifics of any of those . Like, how many more jobs, how much more flexible, what the pay differential is or what the differential for experience for past for riders is . Was that analyzed at all . We did not look into that . Why not . We were asked to provide a profile of the regulation of both industries and identify potential risks and or costs to the city. Did supervisor mar ask you to look at the benefits of tncs beyond two sentences . Yeah. We were asked to, you know, look broadly at the benefits and the costs. Okay. Because i see im not trying to be critical. I have Great Respect for your office, but theres a lot of pages and pages that seem to be, yo
Or pointing out aspects that maybe need some work, which we all agree. We all agree the insurance needs work, other aspects need work, but it would seem that there are benefits as well, and that that would probably deserve some analysis. A lot of people have jobs now. I mean, i know people in my district who are, you know, having trouble making their rent and they drive for one of these companies and theyre able to make rent because of that. I know people who have given up their cars because of this so they no longer need a parking space because for the first time theyre actually able to rely and before they didnt think they could get a cab, but now they can get something where theres a cab or tnc. I think in looking at this issue, i think its important to look at both sides, the challenges and the improvements they need to make, and the benefits to the community and workers as well. Just on that question, there are more than two sentences about the benefits so we do have details in th
Until we have that Comfort Level up. When you say polling are you talking about an actual poll to survey by phone . Yes. The phone survey of customers. Its refreshing of the same survey, same type of survey we connected earlier on in the program to make sure we still have good data to base our expectations of customer opt out and acceptance of the program offering. Is that something you can share next time we meet . Yeah, we should be in a position to share the questions. I think were going to preview the approach with you informally. I dont know if that preview can happen in the public setting given i dont think we want to wait for that until we launch it. I think it would be great to share with you as members of lafco. Yeah, sounds great. [inaudible] i can wait. Thank you. So we did have as i said our Commission Meeting on tuesday did address the cleanpower sf. We did get a presentation from local power, our consultants that are advisingous how to structure the program to accelerate