Communicators this week is a key member of congress when it comes to telecommunications policy. Mike doyle is a democrat from pennsylvania, chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, the subcommittee is key to telecom policy, isnt it . Representative doyle it sure is. It is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telecommunication policy. A lot of interesting issues come before the committee, and more to come. Peter we are about to cover those in the next halfhour, but i want to start with news this week, the fcc declaring huawei zte corporations to be National Security threats. Representative doyle that is one of the reasons you saw the bill we passed in the energy committee. Now we are just waiting for appropriators to put money in it. It is going to take 1 million to 2 million to assist Smaller Companies that want that equipment, to make them whole so they can remove the equipment and put other equipment in. We have been
Decide not to do that, it is very important for people to meet outside, wear face coverings, social distance, hygiene measures that i talked about. Be thoughtful how we engage outside of our immediate house old with people highest risk of dying from the disease, people older with chronic conditions. Given what we are seeing in San Francisco and across the state we are having increasing cases. San francisco knows how to do this. We did it and i am grateful for everyones contributions. We did it in march, april, may. We can do it for the fourth of july. Thank you. Next questions from cathy novak with k cbs for dr. Colfax. How willin how many patientsn quentin are treated in San Francisco hospitals . 18 patients transferred from san quentin to San Francisco hospitals. Second question for dr. Colfax. Are San Francisco hospitals preparing to receive more patients from san quintin . Is that going to affect Hospital Capacity. Right now it is good for indicators. People can find it on data sf
Back to their active benefit which i have to say is a better benefit than what we were covering at first. Does anyone have any idea when that happened . Im just curious. Its something that we actually have been working with the School District over the last year, to consider taking over the dental benefit on their behalf. And weve asked that question and have not found anyone who knows the answer. So we can take this offline, but yeah, anyone that we spoke to, they could not document the history of how that got back to the School District. Commissioner zvanski okay. Well talk about that later. President breslin anyone else have anything else to say . I have a couple of questions. Okay. I dont see a page for the for the retiree h. M. O. Design elements. Theres one for the retiree p. P. O. Design elements and theres one for the h. M. O. Elements, but not for the retirees. I dont see that, the copays for the h. M. O. S. Am i missing something . Yes, i know there are appendix pages that ha
Washington journal program, or through our social media feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. Joining us on the communicators this week is a key member of congress when it comes to telecommunications policy. Mike doyle is a democrat from pennsylvania, chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology. Congressman doyle, the subcommittee is key to telecom policy, isnt it . Representative doyle it sure is. It is the Key Committee in congress that deals with telecommunication policy. A lot of interesting issues come before the committee, and more to come. Pedro we are about to cover those in the next halfhour, but i want to start with news this weik, the fcc declaring hua and the kumble corporation to be National Security threats. Representative doyle that is one of the reasons you saw the bill we passed in the energy committee. Now we are just waiting for appropriato
Fourstep process for the dental plans to determine the needed rate change factor in this case from 2020 to 2021. Next slide. So with that, well review ratings summary for the plan that well review today. Next slide. Next item, please. The covered populations for the sfhss dental plans as well as the member contributions are outlined on this page. The active employees of three employers are offered dental coverage throughout sfhss, and those are the city and county of San Francisco, the superior court, and the municipal executive employees. For the ccsf, ccsfmea, and meamta employees, they pay 10 a month for single tier and 15 a month for family tier in the p. P. O. These employees pay no contributions for the two dental h. M. O. S that are offered. The superior court and superior court m. E. A. Employees pay no contributions for dental coverage, and the active employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and city college of San Francisco do not elect to provide dental through