Unfortunately, they have to work harder than anyone else to have access to the same opportunities afforded to their friends and classmates in the same country that we all love. Hat is the case of aliz beth a 23yearold dreamer from my district and also from my neighborhood from Little Village in chicago. He liz beth is paying her way through college by making and selling tamales. She started helping her mother sell them on the streets of chicago. Since elementary school, she has been waking up at 3 30 in the morning to make the tamales. She will graduate from college next he year and we could say r story is a hallmark of are success. This ignores the dark reality of and her story is a pictureperfect example of america spirit and hard work and she deserves that credit. Her story is far from a feelgood story. Yet, it is another example of how our political system has failed. He liz beths success is hers along. Our government continues to fail her by maintaining an antiimmigrant policy tha
Myself, who have major disabilities but otherwise capable of producing something in society. We have a political problem in this country, not an economic problem. That political problem has created a debt, federal debt, approaching 20 trillion because of the wars primarily. We have a problem in this city with the hospital industry, deciding if they want to throw out the people that are too ill to be taken care of unless its 24hour care and they dont want to pay for that. And this hospital industry is making millions of dollars, though they claim theyre not for profit. As it was told at the last health Board Hearing at this issue, the no, this was in the supervisors chambers. Sutter healthcare has 14 billion in the bank. 44 executives making over 1 million a year. The last i saw, kaiser had 9 billion in the bank and they have milliondollar executives. So they want to kick this problem out to the city and let us take care of it. I worked for the presidio and the army, thats where i start
Ihss moe going up. The the Health Benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, ive jumped to the wrong one. Pardon me. So if we look at this one, what well see is weve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94. 6 to 117. 8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. This is due to additional dignity fund. We have a fairly stable ihss Public Authority payment. This is the Health Benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. And then, the other areas of the budget are really pretty much staying roughly where they are, just kind of basic inflation that adds little bits here and there. Commissioner loo . Commissioner loo i have a question. The question is the ihss consortium, the program in 1819 compared with 1718 is reduced by 25 . Yes, and so this is the item that was the error that i mentioned, so we would add 4. 5 million to the 1819 number. And just to say it again, and what happens when we put this together, was we projected we included the
Approval. Again, mippa sounds for medicare improvements for patients and providers act. There are two main things, increase lowincome subsidy, and thats subsidizing part d plans for drug copays and premiums. And also to sign people up for medicare Savings Programs. It happens to cover the cost of Medicare Part a and part b premiums. We passed these dollars through to our high cap, selfhelp for the elderly. Theyre uniquely positioned with their expertise and infrastructure to administer this program. The Social Security administration estimates that the the extra help provided by the programs can be worth up to 4,000 a year in savings for participants. We have had this program for a couple of years now. Last year selfhelp had over 166 folks they helped with one of these either the lowincome subsidy or medical Savings Program applications. Its a small amount of money, but one that has a great impact. Happen to answer any questions the commission has. Thank you very much. Any comments or
So those have increased significantly, and thats really due to the to the ihss moe going up. The the Health Benefits piece is fairly oh, excuse me, ive jumped to the wrong one. Pardon me. So if we look at this one, what well see is weve got a large growth of the maintenance of effort, there we go, from 94. 6 to 117. 8, and then, we have a small increase in the office of ageing. This is due to additional dignity fund. We have a fairly stable ihss Public Authority payment. This is the Health Benefits payment, which has stayed fairly steady. And then, the other areas of the budget are really pretty much staying roughly where they are, just kind of basic inflation that adds little bits here and there. Commissioner loo . Commissioner loo i have a question. The question is the ihss consortium, the program in 1819 compared with 1718 is reduced by 25 . Yes, and so this is the item that was the error that i mentioned, so we would add 4. 5 million to the 1819 number. And just to say it again, an