This first portion is just under three hours. The Senate Committee on health education, labor, and pensions will come to order. Today is a busy day. Very important votes will be taking place. Democrats will be meeting in their caucuses, so people are going to be coming in and out. I also think that this hearing is important enough that we extend the time for questioning from the usual five minutes to seven minutes. Let me begin by welcoming the ceos of bristolmyers, chris verner, we thank you for being here. The ceo of merck, and the ceo of johnson and johnson for being with us this morning. Thank you very much. There is a lot of discussion in our nation about how divided our people are on many issues and that is absolutely true, but on one of the most important issues facing our country, the American People, whether they are democrats, republicans, independents, conservatives, progressives, could not be more united, and that is the need to substantially lower the outrageous prices of
For an intake with the budget analyst next week. Does that 10 million include equipment as well . Yes. Okay. The last time we had a hearing i vaguely remember the number being over that amount. You had mentioned a specific number closer to 12 . I dont remember the exact dollars. Its was closer to 12 and and we came down to 10. Any money is great. What we are asking for is a step to getting back to that 80 percent which is what weve always advocated for. I might be getting ahead, the second part is to analyze strategic planning. Also we have asked for in the budget the restoration of an h 40 battalion chief that has been defunded for years. We need more assistance on the advent side. Both of these items you want evaluated we agree that we need to investor reinvest the funding in order to get the work done. Thank you for bringing it to everyones attention. Thank you, chief. We is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues . Supervisor tang . S
Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resolution is asking for four things. It asks the department of Public Health to use consumer websites to provide comparisons for drugs in San Francisco and asks for the drug pricing through all inpatient settings federal legislative agenda for this year. We also state that the board of supervisors will increase transparency in pricing for health care and prescription drugs and also a firms our city supports for pharmaceutical prices and rate setting process. I want to take a moment to thank all the advocacy organizations and our residents that have been disproportiona
The city and county of San Francisco. Some of the out patients are eligible to receive a low price negotiated by the federal government in the socalled 340 b program. Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to understand how those prices are set. The resolution is asking for four things. It asks the department of Public Health to use consumer websites to provide comparisons for drugs in San Francisco and asks for the drug pricing through all inpatient settings federal legislative agenda for this year. We also state that the board of supervisors will increase transparency in pricing for health care and prescription drugs and also a firms our city suppo
Again. In addition cmd implemented a web base monitoring tool to help track lbe compliance. For our follow ups, our office we use a risk base approach to select specific recommendations that the departments report for field testing. This is where we actually go out to the office and we go in to test. We gather evidence to determine if the departments implementation resolved the problem underlying the recommendation and issue a memo reporting our findings. Our follow up go through the same process as the report. We company a follow up at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years. This time we actually go out into field and again do a testation work. During the First Quarter of this year we had one follow up of process and sf puc management with lease with aggregate which leases a rock query. What we found was that puc has significant weaknesses in its oversight and owed the city more than 64,000. The greater detail will be provided in our report for the fiscal year. We did find that the 11 recommend