Serious injury, he was unable to work to work for several weeks, he received a bill for over 32 thousand dollars for his care which is more than what he made in a year, luckily he was enrolled in healthy sa ns from paid 250 dollars of this bill, which if he had to pay the full amount would have put him in dire straits, he will be mandated to buy insurance now, but with his income, he would be able to afford a high deductible plan if he can afford any plan at all, we dont have medi cal yet, the aca is more about access to insurance, healthy San Francisco is about access to health care, so lets leave it in tact. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the Latino Community and i also work with Maternity Child Health or labor and delivery, so im here today for personal and professional reasons. If i can leave you with one message today, it would
Building and construction trades council, i think you find agreement with my colleagues in the trades, if they have any complaint with the Health Care Security ordinance, that their demands on business dont go far enough, even our signature they pay for their workers families, on those rare occasions when it provides health care, it provides it for long term workers in an industry that is fundamentally of one of temporary employment, and it doesnt provide for the workers families. I think we would ask that as you work through the intersection in the Health Care Security ordinance, you look not only the preserve but to expand them, i will point out that as i remarked before, the single artist component of our unionized Construction Workforce is latino and for those workers, their extended families often include the undocumented, and the kind of coverage that health care of san sa ns, the security ordinance provides, the health care does not provide, it is important to them and it will c
Access to insurance, healthy San Francisco is about access to health care, so lets leave it in tact. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the Latino Community and i also work with Maternity Child Health or labor and delivery, so im here today for personal and professional reasons. If i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. I personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how Important Health care is, especially to families of migrant descent. From personal experience, i have two brothers who would have foregone care if it wasnt for healthy San Francisco because their private insurance plans that are offered to them require expensive copayments for themselves and for their families. My sisterinlaw for example is a cardiac surgery survivor and i say survivor because she has my
To health care, so lets leave it in tact. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker . Hi, my name is claudia, ive been a San Francisco resident for 30 years and im a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the Latino Community and i also work with Maternity Child Health or labor and delivery, so im here today for personal and professional reasons. If i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. I personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how Important Health care is, especially to families of migrant descent. From personal experience, i have two brothers who would have foregone care if it wasnt for healthy San Francisco because their private insurance plans that are offered to them require expensive copayments for themselves and for their families. My sisterinlaw for example is a cardiac surgery survivor and i say survivor because she has my niece and nephew and in my homeland and her hard condition
Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Supervisors, [inaudible] building and construction trades council, i think you find agreement with my colleagues in the trades, if they have any complaint with the Health Care Security ordinance, that their demands on business dont go far enough, even our signature they pay for their workers families, on those rare occasions when it provides health care, it provides it for long term workers in an industry that is fundamentally of one of temporary employment, and it doesnt provide for the workers families. I think we would ask that as you work through the intersection in the Health Care Security ordinance, you look not only the preserve but to expand them, i will point out that as i remarked before, the single artist component of our unionized Construction Workforce is latino and for those workers, their extended families often include the undocumented, and the kind of coverage that health care of san sa ns, the security ordinance provides, the health care