Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
I would point to a couple of Opinion Pieces that have opened my eyes about the risks in the South China Sea and possible skirmishes or tensions. We focused on the premier of china addressing in a press conference the National Peoples conference and we heard from Tom Mackenzie that this is not the forum for him to address what is happening in hong kong with the strong response from the u. S. Tom our conversation moments ago from lord patten, the 28th governor of hong kong for the united kingdom, his clear message is what is needed is a coordinated response, not every developed economy for itself. Right now, our first word news. Havea lawmakers in china defied the threat by President Trump and passed a proposal for National Sweeping security legislation aimed at hong kong, curbing potential freedoms in the city, a day after the u. S. Declared hong kong was no longer a tana miss. Autonomous. U. S. , milestone for the more than 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the worlds highest death.
Republican Senate Finance committee chair, Chuck Grassley who joins us right now. Thank you for coming. Glad to be with you, neil. Neil what does your gut say how long it could last if it gets to the senate . Chuck schumer is demanding witnesses, wants to speak to mick mulvaney, chief of staff, john bolton, a host of others, where do you think this goes . I dont think there will be any decision on bringing people in for questioning until after we had the Opening Statements by the prosecutors coming from the house of representatives and by the president s response to that, his lawyers responding to that. And then at that point, there might be some debate of that. But i think that the idea is not to prolong this, to give a fair trial and reach a decision based upon well thoughtout testimony for and against the president but not to make it any longer than necessary because the senate has a lot of work to do and, and we want to get to that work. Neil as you know the president seems to be,
Records just to name a few in short google now has access to a complete Health History including patient names and dates of birth from the journal quote google began project nightingale in secret last year with the st louis based ascension a catholic chain of 2600 hospitals doctors offices and other facilities with data sharing accelerating since summer but heres the kicker with all of this happening other patients or doctors were notified so of course the 1st question thats going to be raised does this agreement fit within hipaa laws which are designed to safeguard to protect medical information ascension says that it does and that no hipaa laws are being broken. But we also now know this that at least 150. 00 google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients again google insists that they are in compliance with federal law so the next question does this agreement put your private information at risk by allowing a monster tech company like google
And secondly how different is it when those Health Records are going to google it makes a big difference now we have Electronic Medical records everyone is digitized before when you have that paper record no no you have tremendous privacy the government has forced physicians to be digitized so its easy to access that record data birth Social Security numbers diagnosis all this is very important and again id really this is news to me now theyre going to say the happy face of google we want to make your life easier doctor better diagnoses smarter diagnoses better lab reports for that i applaud them but this data has tremendous value multimillion dollars whos going to get the benefit of that does the Health Care System get that money that theyre being for or whatever so thats very important other thing that i find interesting why do you need to know patient names i wasnt a blanked out or social how is that relevant maybe your ag or sir where you live ok that could be helpful hypertension