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Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to thank our councilman kostanian for bringing this to council today. Your leadership and showing us not only the personal side of this issue but also the medical and social side has really helped us all understand a little bit more about your experience and also more about what we as a department and the council might be able to do to support you and others. So thank you. I would also like to mention that there are pamphlets and booklets and sheets of information about Kidney Disease on dialysis on the table. Please help yourself. Do we have any Public Comment . ...

Flow of vital information. I agree with your point about whistleblower protections, but there are a range of different motives. There are spy, Robert Hanssen types. No sympathy for that. A lot of people leak because it makes them feel important. They are in the know, and it shows they are in the know. It makes them feel good to do that. I dont have much sympathy for that. I do have sympathy for an actual whistleblower. Were are instances where h have seen for the right reason they have gone to the press and laid out what a disagree with. Adont know that we can have system that allows every per...

In the bill that says that cannot be used to demonstrate harm to National Security. That, to me, is an indication weve got a pretty good shot and if we can get applied to jims case, it would be efficient in keeping him out of jail. In terms of the National Security piece, another thing to remember is, every confidential security case. There are at least as many and perhaps more journalist who have been put in jail in civil litigation for money damages arriving out of claims against the u. S. Government. In the win ho lee case several years ago, there were six journalist held in contempt, inclu...

As a percentage of total medicaid spending were spending less on longterm care than we past, not more. Certainly i think governors are innovating to try to get a grasp on the amount of spending we basis, a per person because when you see a lot of people coming thats the one have is how much youre spending on a per person. Asis so relative to the number of people who need longterm care, tore will be fewer dollars go around. And thats important because it real us focus on the is thatthe real problem this is an issue of economic insecurity for american families. Mechanismhe right that with pay fo...

Comment. Okay commissioner melara. Yes. A couple of places ilene im familiar with the case by it would be good for the commission that dont know about this its a great bottle to say in San Francisco. The pace stands for the all inclusive care for the elderly it started in San Francisco it was started over thirty years ago and it really is designed to focus on individuals who are certified to be eligible to be in a nursing home but want to stay in the community as long as possible it begin with medical services and primary Care Services as well as Longterm Services and community services. I thi...