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Provides, we believe that, that trend will not happen in San Francisco because the Health Care Security ordinance ensures that employees that work more than 8 hours are covered. This is yet another example of how the Health Care Security ordinance and especially the employer spending requirement aspect of the ordinance can work very well with the aca to provide meaningful access to health care to all san franciscans, so with that, i want to thank all of the members of the public, members of the community, the business community, labor who are here, and so it is now my pleasure to call on our f...

Eligible will be able to apply to medi cal without no cost to thel, so that will be an easy decision, as the income gets higher, the cost sharing gets higher. What percentage will be lgbt . I do not have that percentage. Thank you. Within the department of Public Health, we really have a twofold focus on Health Reform implementation. First is about dphs own Health Care Delivery system. We are looking to ready our system to be the provider of choice for our patients, our uninsured parents have not had a wide choice of Health Care Providers but Health Insurance provides them with that choice, we...

40 thousand 500 we think are eligible, about 25 thousand will access insurance. This is based on a 62. 5 rate of retention that we currently experience in the healthy San Francisco program, so we have anticipate hated our retention rate which is quite good for our program will translate into Health Insurance enrollment. This leaves about 15 thousand 500 who represent those who may be eligible but do not enroll in Health Insurance. And they might not enroll for any number of reasons, enrollment is complex, they may choose to pay the penalty rather than enroll in insurance, they may choose to pa...

Care Delivery System. We are looking to ready our system to be the provider of choice for our patients, our uninsured parents have not had a wide choice of Health Care Providers but Health Insurance provides them with that choice, we want them to choose us. A recent survey indicated that 60 of lowincome individuals who are uninsured would change their provider if they were given the choice to do so so we are responding to that challenge and integrating the service we offer throughout our Delivery System so we do a better job to coordinate the care our patients need, were working to improve qua...

Uninsured who need the most outreach. San francisco applied for an Education Grant and was not awarded the grant due to our significant process in reaching out to our uninsured, it identified those special populations that are most likely to be uninsured and may require special outreach, young adults are critical to Health Reforms success, younger healthier people are critical to balance out the older who are often sicker and help keep costs down for the whole system and will eventually lower prices overall. Latino and asian adults with a specific focus on chinese adults, information from cove...