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You on that. Any other comments . Public comment . Seeing none, all right. Item no. 9. The clerk discussion item question the blue shields calculation. Lisa gut be. Im going to accept set up the questions. One of our unions is looking at the rates and benefits process as the question of hsf regarding the rate setting process from the 2013 and he basically was asking about how was the pricing done and concern that maybe we overpriced 2013 and so i thought the best way to answer that question was how to actuary through the Health Service board address the question and kosher. Okay. Neale coacher...

To convince them to cut back the zone 7 district relies on the state foremost of the water and the state doesnt have any. So dublin, and san ramone are considering a hike tonight. Abc7 news is there live with reaction from folks who live there. That meeting is getting underway now. I spoke with several folks as they were making their way inside the reaction has been mixed. Turn up the tap. Shut down the sprinkler. Some people that choose not to conserve, bills will go up. The Services Board asked residents to reduce usage by five percent indoors as the tri valley deals with the drought. Tonigh...

By kaiser but the profit margin growing through the roof. That does not sit right with me. It does feel like we are being gouged by kaiser. I accept that you are saying that you are doing the best, but it doesnt sit right with me given the profits rising by kaiser for the services how our city is not getting a good deal. Would you like for me to address that or kaiser . I would like to know who is here from kaiser . Would you mind addressing the utilization rates on how it impacts us or not . The utilization if it improves and the cost to that utilization, since you are fully in insured, the c...

Important it has been for them over the last four difficult years financially for families to have been able to deliver what is essentially flat trends for the last four years. 4 years. There is also the view of this just for the city and county of San Francisco on slide 9. The premium increase is a 7 percent increase. A 1. 1 percent increase and a negative 2 percent decrease for that portion of that. Thats primarily due to the blue shield and city plan premium. We did also want to mention on page 10, that there is a rates and benefit packet. A flat premium incentive subsidy. This was at the m...

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 ...