Commission. Todays meeting is a live cablecast on sfgovtv two and live streamed at sfgovtv. Org. Forward slash ethics live for Public Comment. Members of the public may attend in person or may participate by phone or on the webex platform, as explained in our agenda document. Mr. Clerk, would you please explain how remote Public Comment will be handled . Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak for those attending in person. Opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period will be made available here in room 400, city hall for those attending remotely. Public comment can also be provided via phone call by. Calling 14156550001. Access code is 26643680498, followed by a pound sign, then press pound again to join as an attendee. When your item of interest comes up, press star three to raise your hand to be added to the public. Comment line. Public comment is also available via the webex client app
Africanamerican voters and also africanamerican candidates . Let me share with you, jesse holland, this is from a democrat, he worked for president bill clinton as a speechwriter and he says to t Voting Rights nationwide on heading on inattention by the American People, emboldened by the recent Supreme Court case limiting the reach of the Voting Rights act, they have worked weeklyo cut voting samed is not a paradox because often the africanamerican voters are those who cast their ballots early according to a number of studies. Guest that is a paradox. You would think someone is trying to recruit voters would want to make it as easy as possible those people to vote. Now, a lot of republican opportunists will tell you that even africanamericans are concerned about voter fraud and thats one of the issues that they tried to point at when you look at voter id law. However, one of the practical effect of voter id laws obviously is that make it makest harder for some people to vote. Now, one
Also believe it is a goodfaith proposal that i think will serve the people of our state well for many years to come. We will seek the maximum allowable time under the law for that waiver. Let me say as i close, and then i will finish the formal program but i can catch up with some of you afterwards if you want. I served 12 years in the congress and i served the better part of a year and a half i have become more convinced every day that the cure for what ails our country is going to come more from the nations state capitals than it ever will from the nations capital. At the very core of this waiver request is my belief that many of the most intractable issues facing our country, including health care, can best be solved by giving the states the freedom and flexibility to design programs that can solve the challenges the people of their state are facing in those areas. So we will continue those discussions with federal officials. Im hopeful that we will be able to expand the healthy ind
Well, the United States, we have 350 Million People here. We have such a diverse we do not have a homogenous society, which is much more typical in many other countries around the world. I did want to make a point about life expect answery, and the w. H. O. Often says the United States ranked 37th out of 190 countries. As professor steven wolf in the institute of medicine study, which was really based on Life Expectancy, he said Life Expectancy and other noted Health Outcomes are determined by much more than health care. Here in america, when you look at our lifestyle choices, we have a huge obesity problem. We have homicides and car accident deaths at a much higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. When you look at the numbers for fiveyear survival rates for cancer, the United States ranks number one in the world on 13 of the 16 most popular cancers. You have to compare apples to apples. Thank you very much. My time is expired, mr. Chairman. Let me say before i ask
Performance is called avoidable mortality. That is in a Good Health Care system, women should not die in child birth. People should not die of tuberculosis. People should not die of aschemic Heart Disease. People should not die of cancers that can be cured. And when we look at that, im embarrassed to say that we come out in the United States as 19 and the french come out as number 1, i repeat, number 1. That is a fact that cannot be ignored. It must be addressed. It was written up in health affairs, a reputable journal. It was confirmed with different measures by the oecd, and it has not received in my judgment sufficient discussion. Another indicator of how well a system is doing and a theme of this subcommittee that i know is dear to chairman sanders is access to primary care. You can talk about primary care until youre blue in the face, but lets look at the consequences of whether you receive primary care or not in Different Health care systems. We have a very established measure of