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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...

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...

That our values should drive our values. Thank you, mr. Mayor. Look forward to your signing this legislation clapping there it is, done clapping 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...

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 uninsured and underinsured. Item numbe...

But christopher wylie, the former ukbased Cambridge Analytica employeeturned whistleblower said that the core of the companys activities was the access facebook provided. So we went from no data to, you know, harvesting all of this this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this you know, the consumer data sets and voter data sets. So, you know, we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks going, wheres the data . Wheres the algorithms . Wheres our information weapons . And thats where kogan came along, alexander kogan, the professor at cambridge. Alex...