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On page 39. That does reflect the aggregate rate for all the employers and the employees as opposed to what is reflected in our report that shows the significant reduction for the City Health Plan as well as for the blue shield represents the city of San Franciscos cost and that is the blended rate for the employees, but its only the citys contribution. Thank you. Thats an important distinction. The city of San Franciscos membership for employers has a lower percentage of kaiser members than the other employers. So the impact of the 5. 25 percent increase for kaiser has less an impact on the p...

To make contributions required without approval by this board. The current rates package is recommended by the actuarial report. This benefit packet must be accepted as a whole or the board has to resubmit a new packet. So i think given the administrative deadlines outlined by hhf, there does not appear to be sufficient time to renegotiate with blue shield and kaiser where hhf can print out the member guides, load the enrollment information and transfer the eligibility files to provide health care to employees and retirees effective january of next year. In a normal year, the Health Service bo...

Billion dollar corporations continue to bill the hardworking people of america that are just scraping by and they dont want to have any accountability for raising their rates. Thats just unacceptable. You got to wonder why they are not doing that. Its pretty shady, dont you think. So what im here to testify is to block this increase and stand strong against this corporation because what happens time and again with these super billion dollar entities. People fold, people get scared, people freak and run away. We cant do that. So you are talking about peoples lives here. You are talking about al...

That will create a 22nd century of transit for the tronst century of jobs so thank you to secretary lahood and thank you to the leadership for all that we have accomplished here today. [applause] peter rogof was dominated to serve in the federal administration by the department of transportation in 2009 by president barack obama. He has over see the disbursement throughout the country through the american reinvestment act and has done so meeting every milestone established by that act. Getting money into hands of transit operators whose budgets were severely strained by the worse economic down...

Impacts. Can i ask a question. From previous documents that i thought it showed that the blue shield premium decreased in previous documents along with the city plan as well, but the aggregate premium increase shows that blue shield went up. Can you explain that discrepancy. I cant remember where that was where the document that i was reviewing. My understanding that the citys plan and blue shield was going down and kaiser was going up by 5 percent. This is an aggregate of the active and early retiree rate. This aggregate view is a combination of all plans we have under a health plan and thats...