The continued limiting of the access and finally, city college made a difference in my life. And i want to be able to maintain that and to be able to have access for everybody to the kind of courses that changed my life in areas of humanity, et cetera. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is james tracy. Im a city college alumni, proud, went there for many years. City college allowed me to work full time while i put myself through college and allowed know figure out the course of my education because in the early 20s should be no surprise, i like many other people didnt know exactly what i wanted to do. And it gave me high quality top notch education in every single way. Every single last program that is shaved from city college is picked up will be eventually picked up by the private sector. The only difference, the private sector is going to produce education with a profit note i have in mind, meaning that people like myself, young people young peo
Not affordable for the many san franciscans who currently enrolled in the healthy San Francisco coverage but eligible for coverage california. Last fall i had the pleasure to train, 115 staff from the department of Public Health on how to enroll people in the coverage california, many have been working with the clinics and the population since the Program Began in 2007 and they know these patients very well, they were so excited to learn about the program and the prospect of helping people enroll. And well, when we got to the part of the training about the cost of the premiums, the cost of the copays and the cost of the deductibles their eyes got very wide. And mouths dropped open, and coverage california is significantly more expensive than the healthy San Francisco program. And these staff knew that the first time they saw the Sticker Price that it was going to be unaffordable for their patients. Staff who were very upset and even angry. They so wanted to be the bearer of the good ne
9. 5 percent of income, and that those people should not have an additional spend, and we additionally contend that especially because of the individual mandate that if an employer offers the insurance and they should not be on the hook for creating an account because the people have declined insurance that has to be affordable to them by federal law and the other thing that is problematic to us is that because of the change of the Affordable Care act, the smaller businesses and those with less than 50, it is much more challenging in this environment to provide the healthcare and it will be easier for the people to get a better deals and it is a real problem that we need to look at and the businesses have the same challenge of finding the plans and when the employees dont take the plans up it makes it difficult for them to provide the affordable insurance. And we really need to look at who is actually an mra accounts and who are in hra accounts on many of those people who actually dont