Benefits. Its a full package and we have a legal obligation. The board did its Due Diligence and i think the rate package you have is unbelievable rates. We have kept rates stable for the last 4 years. There have not been any significant increases. I think that thats significant to understand and thats still true even with this rate package. We need to keep the pressure on kaiser, no question, and we need to go for the transparentcy. This package affected thousands of lives. The extended bay area is not capable of absorbing 109,000 individuals who will need medical care if we cant continue to provide it. They cant even absorb the 40 thousand. The Affordable Care act is coming in and going to force them to try to absorb many more. Why should we put our employees in jeopardy for their health care and there is the retirees as well. I would urge you to consider the consequences, the full package, the members of the Health Services board and incredible staff as we worked very hard Going For
Thankful and lucky that we got 1. 5 percent without any explanation as to why kaiser is going to hold a gun to our head and say give us 15 million or no health care. I consider that to be an act of violence. My name is aheadey johnson. We work in psychiatric emergency services. We help people with case management. As you know workers got 1. 5 percent raise. We appreciate it but its not enough. We find it insulting that kaiser is gouging this money. Its a cut for us and cost more to work and live and buy food in this city. So we are demanding that you block the kaiser rate increase and give at least the 4. 5 increase to the workers to do valuable work in the city. Hello. Thank you for looking into this situation. Just an example of some of the work we do and why its important to get funded. One of our clients, hes in our program for a year with bipolar disorder and working at sf general. Before he went there, he would not speak. Because he started working there, they offer services to p
And i have no problems having those doors shut. I have 2 minutes up here but i dont think i will need it and its just 1 word. Its extortion. Thats what it comes dwoun down to. Its extortion. Give us 15,000,000 million. Thats kaisers choice. If we dont do this, there is going to be 40,000 people without health care. Thats the decision kaiser made. Thats going to be how they act as they want. As someone from formally a nonprofit worker, to be in a situation where in the last month 1 2 nonprofit workers have been here providing data, charts, spreadsheets and evidence, to get a costofliving adjustment and that got knocked down from 4 percent to 1. 5 percent. We have done everything kaiser wont do. And we are supposed to be thankful and lucky that we got 1. 5 percent without any explanation as to why kaiser is going to hold a gun to our head and say give us 15 million or no health care. I consider that to be an act of violence. My name is aheadey johnson. We work in psychiatric emergency se
Is the time where we have paid more money than kaiser has to take care of the people of kaiser. We are the people who belong to kaiser. The otherwise dont. We dont want to pay for kaisers increase. I dont think the city should pay. I think they have gotten enough. 800 million is more than enough. I think that you guys are standing strong. I was at another meeting where they were standing strong and it didnt happen. Im hoping the board of supervisors will stand strong for the working people of San Francisco and stand strong for even the citizens of San Francisco because kaiser is not the only gouger to the city. So you have to start somewhere. So im saying start with kaiser. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisor mar and avalos. I have been working in Mental Health for the last 15 years. One of the things i want to stress today is accountability. What it seems to me is you know, these billion dollar corporations continue to bill the hardworking people of am