Guest well, the Civil Rights Commission started in 1957. President eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the United States is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lynching or some discrimination taking place in the country. So the idea was eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to set up a Civil Rights Commission, which would put the facts on top of the table. Im told by one of the people who was at the meeting that he slammed the table and said there are the facts on top of the table. And Commission Says we know who do policy sometimes set up because theres a tough problem and people dont want to do anything about it. They get a report on it goes away. This commission was supposed to put the facts on top of the table and then its future would depend on what i found out, how aggr
Simply has not been used for appropriate ated purpose and that is first, and as a retired teacher i would like to point out when i was teaching that it was in my earlier teaching years it was a real difficulty, to some of the kids in the classes and what was a supposed to do for those kids or for those kids. And balancing their needs against the kids who were being exposed to illness and under the San Francisco coverage, that i dont have to deal with that as a teacher when i go into a restaurant i dont have to worry now about whether the restaurant workers in the kitchen who are serving me are sick and came to work because they were sick because coverage San Francisco means that if you are eating in a restaurant in San Francisco you dont have to worry about sick people in the kitchen. I came here on muni someone coughed behind me and i didnt have to worry that they had a disease that he couldnt deal with or whatever, thank you. I am going to read a few more names, barry, betty, luey, t
Working. Because we remember what it was like and what the struggle was like and i would like to say first of all that we are talking about in closing this loophole that this is not new money. Some of the speakers, have spoken, against it, and as if this were requiring new money to come from employers. And this does not talk about new money. This is talking about passing along the money which has already been mandated but simply has not been used for appropriate ated purpose and that is first, and as a retired teacher i would like to point out when i was teaching that it was in my earlier teaching years it was a real difficulty, to some of the kids in the classes and what was a supposed to do for those kids or for those kids. And balancing their needs against the kids who were being exposed to illness and under the San Francisco coverage, that i dont have to deal with that as a teacher when i go into a restaurant i dont have to worry now about whether the restaurant workers in the kitc
But it is particular was a benefit required to add to the cause . Is there enough money to allow for the less merrill networks . Go back to this section of the love with the benefit requirements. Hospital doctor lab them Prescription Drug benefit for each. He did have the Prescription Drug benefit or a hospital benefit that pays 7 of the first 30 days then 100 percent. Not that you take any benefits away but that you do a different co pay and with what can be delivered with those benefits to restrict generic drugs if there are alternatives available. There is flexibility how to provide those benefits. Employers provide a 70 percent actuarial benefits but they do it efficiently for a much lower cost. There is a number of variables the way you packaged the benefit. Dont get me wrong. It is a zero sum game. You take something away when you do that. But the difference is Healthy People want Different Things than six people. Everybody wants catastrophic insurance because the healthy person
Despite these really horrific numbers, there are still political leaders downplaying the severity or even the existence of the pandemic. To that, one of the top federal officials overseeing the Pandemic Response had this to say this morning to cnns john berman. We have hundreds of thousands of dead americans. Well have millions of people around the world. This is not phony, this is not fake. It is serious. It is serious. And today were going to focus in on not only hospitals getting hammered right now and also the hope these vaccines are bringing, but also on the wider ripple effects of the pandemic. Restaurants forced to close their doors, schools trying the best to the best they can to keep their doors open as we enter this dark winter. Lets turn first to capitol hill. The top leaders in congress are offering up clear signs that they are confident a covid relief bill is coming but, yes, you have heard this before. No, they dont have a lot of time left. Cnns manu raju is tracking this