Against the variants right now. The more contagious variant first found in south africa is here. It almost certainly means theres other cases out there. This is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is friday, january 29th, its 6 00 here in new york. So why is this man smiling . No, not the guy on the left who lost an election by 7 million votes and presided over the deaths of 400,000 americans from coronavirus. The guy on the right, the republican leader on the right. Why is he smiling . Because hes been working on some bipartisan deal to get vaccines to millions of people . Is he smiling because hes been fighting for Economic Relief for millions of people out of work . Is he smiling because hes taken a new public stand against lies, hate, and bigotry . No, no, and no. Hes smiling because he got a political pat on the head, the tender embrace of the man who told a mob to march on the cap
We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min
Fourstep process for the dental plans to determine the needed rate change factor in this case from 2020 to 2021. Next slide. So with that, well review ratings summary for the plan that well review today. Next slide. Next item, please. The covered populations for the sfhss dental plans as well as the member contributions are outlined on this page. The active employees of three employers are offered dental coverage throughout sfhss, and those are the city and county of San Francisco, the superior court, and the municipal executive employees. For the ccsf, ccsfmea, and meamta employees, they pay 10 a month for single tier and 15 a month for family tier in the p. P. O. These employees pay no contributions for the two dental h. M. O. S that are offered. The superior court and superior court m. E. A. Employees pay no contributions for dental coverage, and the active employees of the San Francisco Unified School District and city college of San Francisco do not elect to provide dental through
Setting now is under the auspices, frankly, of another Insurance Company cigna. So i think that this is opening up a hornets nest in terms of pricing for all of these specialty drugs. I know that they specialize in drugs that have to be administered intravenously, and it can be administered by the members themselves. But there may be other drugs. So i point this out because this is an issue not resolved for this benefit and i think that it deserves our look at it more carefully for all of our contracts that involve this kind of a pharmacy benefit company, a forprofit company, where our members are paying outrageous amounts of money for drugs that are accessible to them in other ways. Yes, thank you. And i think that is exactly why, you know, we are seeking additional contracts with other providers at this time. You know, the way that the benefit is currently set up, the drugs are paid under the medical plan and not the pharmacy plan. Because the fact that there are injectable drugs. Bu
We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min