Commissioners, prior to bringing our Health Officer to talk about ebola preparedness. I want to let you know we did win the world series and we had a celebration outside our doors and we did a lot of work around sobering and made sure we took people. Dr. Brown from ems who organized the event pretty quickly and thats on top of the work they have been doing for preparedness. Im proud of the work they did. I also want to acknowledge the work of deputy who took care of the office during that period of time. On october 17th, we had the Second Annual lgbt connect. Its a great connection at the lesbian and gay center. Covered california started november 15th and at this time members may renew their plans or purchase plans for the first time. New for 2014 plan year, california plan will offer Pediatric Dental Services through all health plans and special standalone plans for adults. Thats an important now announcement to make as well as the San Francisco filipino event was held outside of cit
What do you think is the bottom line in terms of what cbo needs and how should the Public Health community the thinking about it . William h. i think you should ask the former director before you ask me. This is going to sound like a bureaucratic response. As a former cbo staffer but resources, honestly. Resources. I know it is a throwaway, but the need to weigh come as part of this activity we met with cbo staff. I was shocked at the number of Journal Articles they have to go through every week. 1000 Journal Articles, if you can believe it, just to weigh in. I concluded out of that discussion that what they need is a watson ibm program to condense at least narrow it down so they can find out evidence which is replicable, scalable at the National Level. I note it is a throwaway, but they need resources if they will translate this into actual good evaluation of the policies and forth. I want to pick up on something that jeff said, though and bill, too, to some extent. The problem as i s
Satisfied with the Affordable Care act with their plans, except for those with high deductibles. A survey found. With the majority of people satisfied, what incentive do democrats have to change it . Guest well, i think there would argue that those people, you know, if they are going to the doctor for a flu shot or getting some minor procedure done, yes they would have to pay more. But if they have a cancer diagnosis, they are not going to go bankrupt for a 20,000 hospital bill, at they would have perhaps previously. So i think democrats would argue that at the end of the day it is still a good deal. And that perhaps it is to be more Consumer Education on what people are buying when they go to sign up. Host key west, florida. It. The democrats. Good morning. Caller good morning. Hello, jennifer. Getting back to the of portable health care act, in 1974, hawaii made Health Insurance provided by employers mandatory. And in the last 40 years, it has been very, very successful. In fact, it
We provide training. We deal with issues of implicit bias , which is a huge issue of why people do what they do and getting to understand the impact of it. We have the department of justice has a Civil Rights Division which everyone is aware of with pattern of practice investigations, most recently the agreement in cleveland. The ferguson report. We have a lot of services. And i think the way we respond to crisis, the way we respond to whats happening in the country is, one, to provide assistance to communities. I think the attorney general said it best that we cannot federalize local Law Enforcement, and thats not the intent. Theres a reason why would why we created these 16,000 departments, it was about local control. But we can help set up standards by which the 16,000 agencies should be able to follow. And we should assure that whether its two officers or 20,000, that they are engaging in constitutional policing and that the impact to the community is the same. We can also provide
Quarter of a million times already. Nobody wants to be a burden. I think thats so at any age. Dr. Baldwin . One of the innovations i want to bring forward is something that weve been charged with at cdc. That is to think about the connection between clinical medicine and Public Health. In early september, all the cdc leadership was sent a note saying, how can we improve prevention in health care . He outlined four specific areas that i think crosswalk nicely with transportation. The first was to reduce practice variability. An opportunity in this space is as we get better and better about understanding driver fitness and how to evaluate it, reducing practice variability across Health Care Settings is going to be critically important. The secondary was engaging the entire health care team. So assisting with these screenings, understanding these transitions, engaging allied health, Occupational Therapists and others and importantly having those Professionals Connect with these transporta