Next speaker. Hi, supervisors, my name is judy and im a resident of the easier neighborhood and im part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the Health Care Services Master Plan Task force. As was said earlier, a lot of companies are cutting their employees hours because they dont want to pay for health care, thats not fair and i dont want that to happen in San Francisco, our local law limits employers to do this because they have to put aside for their Workers Health care based on each hour the employer has worked and my family cant afford private insurance, this is a lot of the case of other Health Care Workers in San Francisco who work in restaurants or retail, they need Health Care Security ordinance so everybody can have access to Affordable Quality Health care. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is wayne lee, ive been a resident of San Fr
Human right and everyone should have the right to Access Health care regardless of their income. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call a few more names. calling speaker names . Next speaker. Hi, supervisors, my name is judy and im a resident of the easier neighborhood and im part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the Health Care Services Master Plan Task force. As was said earlier, a lot of companies are cutting their employees hours because they dont want to pay for health care, thats not fair and i dont want that to happen in San Francisco, our local law limits employers to do this because they have to put aside for their Workers Health care based on each hour the employer has worked and my family cant afford private insurance, this is a lot of the case of other Health Care Workers in San Francisco who work in restaurants or retail, they need Health Care Security ordinance so everybody can have access t
Health care and businesses and instead businesses should also share the profits by helping the workers get health care. The Health Care Security ordinance would secure that more workers would get health care and health care is the human right and everyone should have the right to Access Health care regardless of their income. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call a few more names. calling speaker names . Next speaker. Hi, supervisors, my name is judy and im a resident of the easier neighborhood and im part of the chinese progressive association, i parent panted in klektsing surveys and presenting our recommendations to the Health Care Services Master Plan Task force. As was said earlier, a lot of companies are cutting their employees hours because they dont want to pay for health care, thats not fair and i dont want that to happen in San Francisco, our local law limits employers to do this because they have to put aside for their Workers Health care based on each hour the employer has
And Youth Movement of justice organizing, in 2011, we participated in collecting over 800 surveys of Community Members who told us what their health needs are and what were barriers to accessing the services they need. We presented these survey findings and our recommendations to the planning and Health Committee and last week at the presentation for the draft report of the Health Care Master plan. So, our survey show that one in five residents rely on healthy San Francisco for health care. One of the recommendation ins the Health Care Services master plan is about preserving healthy San Francisco, were here today to talk about why healthy San Francisco and the Health Care Security ordinance is still really important even with obama care, so locally under the Health Care Security ordinance, the minimum workers is 20 but if the ordinance was replaced by the Affordable Care act, the minimum would be raised to 50. This is important because lez people would be covered or get health care an
Law that occupies the entire field of an area and when the federal government adopts the law that occupies an entire field, congress may say local jurisdiction, you cant meddle with this subject, in this case, the Affordable Care act allows local jurisdictions like San Francisco to adopt ordinances like the health care ordinance. Thank you for that clarification. Thank you very much, why dont we go on to Public Comment and we have a large number of people here, so normally i give each speaker which is the maximum which is 3 minutes, but i dont want to lose our quorum, so we will limit to 2 minutes, so why dont i read off a few names. calling speaker names . Good afternoon. Im ken jacobs, im the chair of the uc berkeley labor and education and one of the coprinciple investigators for the simulation of market and is the primary model being used for projections in how Health Coverage will change in california as a result of the Affordable Care act and has been used by state, counties and