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
To put a floor underneath the employer offered Health Insurance to San Francisco workers, to stop them from bleeding people out by taking away their incentive to cut it and in an attempt to provide more resources to other san franciscans with other insurance, how they arose out of the niche yatd t if from pitch cats to make the best of those resources and use the public discussion as an opportunity to reorganize is Health Care System in a more rational fashion, so let me break this down quickly, this discussion is not about saving healthy San Francisco because it would be political suicide to mismantle healthy san france, its not going to be dismantled, whether its going to be a money grab from workers, pure and simple, there are tens of millions of dollars that the small minority of the least responsible employers of San Francisco stand to lose as they think about it in 2014 which they can no longer claw those dollars back, its taking money from workers pockets and gives it back. The
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
Talk about the history, they are not the same thing, Health Care Security ordinance of which tom miano was the primary author started out as an effort to put a floor underneath the employer offered Health Insurance to San Francisco workers, to stop them from bleeding people out by taking away their incentive to cut it and in an attempt to provide more resources to other san franciscans with other insurance, how they arose out of the niche yatd t if from pitch cats to make the best of those resources and use the public discussion as an opportunity to reorganize is Health Care System in a more rational fashion, so let me break this down quickly, this discussion is not about saving healthy San Francisco because it would be political suicide to mismantle healthy san france, its not going to be dismantled, whether its going to be a money grab from workers, pure and simple, there are tens of millions of dollars that the small mirity of the least responsible employers of San Francisco stand t