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Supervisor avalos. I got stitched up many times at kaiser hospital. My son was born there. Thank you for being here. Excuse me. Thank you, sir. Well have Public Comment in a minute. I want to thank anyone who did come. Those speakers, i think, well have concluding comments, but well open up to Public Comment. Everyone will have two minutes. I have a few speaker cards and theres more. Larry brad shau and brook. Please, anyone want to speak in Public Comment and everyone will have two minutes to speak. Is this working . Sir, sir, the podium will work, go ahead. This is [inaudible]. Stand still i...

Meeting good morning. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and Financial Committee for november 6, 2013, im mark farrel and im be doing this meeting and i want to thank Supervisor Scott Wiener for joining us and supervisor mar and avalos will join us in a while. I want to thank victor young and the sfgtv covering this. Mr. Clerk do we have announcements. Yes. Be silent. And phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Itemed acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. So we have one relatively longer hear...

Budget and finance Committee Meeting good morning. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and Financial Committee for november 6, 2013, im mark farrel and im be doing this meeting and i want to thank Supervisor Scott Wiener for joining us and supervisor mar and avalos will join us in a while. I want to thank victor young and the sfgtv covering this. Mr. Clerk do we have announcements. Yes. Be silent. And phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Itemed acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. So we ha...

To lend our support and to affirm our commitment to quality transparency and to Price Transparency. I am im the manager here in San Francisco for Kaiser Foundation hospital and health plan and im accountable for the care delivered to a little of over 192,000 people. 3,000 healthy San Francisco 192,000 people. 3,000 healthy San Francisco healthy participant and 3,000 Health Members and for kaiser california we serve 55,000 city and county employees and a little over 2,000 in San Francisco. We value our partner and our relationship with the city and county. And we look forward to collaborating o...

Acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. So we have one relatively longer hearing and we have a number of items before that, so well get going with the hearing and the resolution that i sponsors. Clerk, call item number one and 1. Item number 1 hearing to focus on the overall trends in hospital pricing, the rationale from the hospitals for the setting of these prices, how hospital prices are affecting our governmental accounting standards board unfunded healthcare liability, overall healthcare costs, and how the pricing seems to disproportionately affect the uninsu...