415 a6550001 and enter access. Code 26611397622. And enter pound twice, at which point you should be able to hear or listen to the hearing live and you need to wait for the item you are interested in speaking to and for Public Comment to be announced to comment, you must enter star three to raise your hand and once youve raised your hand, you will hear the prompt stating that you have raised your hand to ask a question. Please wait to speak until the host calls on you. When you hear that you are unmuted, that is your indication to begin speaking. For those of you joining us via webex, please log in via the link found on todays agenda and enter password cpc 2023 and use the raised hand icon to ask a question. You will hear a beep and then see a prompt that the host has unmuted you and that is your indication to begin speaking best practices are to call from a quiet location. Please mute the volume on your television or computer, and for those persons attending in city hall, please line
So here i am, 27, looking at a bill that says the brain is part of the body and Insurance Companies cannot discriminate in the reimbursement of illnesses to the brain any more so than they would any other illness of the body. I have no business being the primary sponsor of that bill. It tells you a lot about stigma. That the longest member the youngest member, lois died on the totem pole, got to put it in so my point is stigma still ranks big in all of this and as a result we have not made the progress we need as a nation, still. When hivaids, we were losing 53 million americans a year. Within one or two years of the aids activists coming all over the country and demanding change, congress was appropriating 24 million a year to tackle this illness. Addiction, opioid overdose and other overdoses, account for 112,000. You add the 300 50,000 people who die of alcoholism, which of course no one really acknowledges as a Major Public Health issue. Then you add the 50,000 who successfully tak
So here i am, 27, looking at a bill that says the brain is part of the body and Insurance Companies cannot discriminate in the reimbursement of illnesses to the brain any more so than they would any other illness of the body. I have no business being the primary sponsor of that bill. It tells you a lot about stigma. That the longest member the youngest member, lois died on the totem pole, got to put it in so my point is stigma still ranks big in all of this and as a result we have not made the progress we need as a nation, still. When hivaids, we were losing 53 million americans a year. Within one or two years of the aids activists coming all over the country and demanding change, congress was appropriating 24 million a year to tackle this illness. Addiction, opioid overdose and other overdoses, account for 112,000. You add the 300 50,000 people who die of alcoholism, which of course no one really acknowledges as a Major Public Health issue. Then you add the 50,000 who successfully tak
So here i am, 27, looking at a bill that says the brain is part of the body and Insurance Companies cannot discriminate in the reimbursement of illnesses to the brain any more so than they would any other illness of the body. I have no business being the primary sponsor of that bill. It tells you a lot about stigma. That the longest member the youngest member, lois died on the totem pole, got to put it in so my point is stigma still ranks big in all of this and as a result we have not made the progress we need as a nation, still. When hivaids, we were losing 53 million americans a year. Within one or two years of the aids activists coming all over the country and demanding change, congress was appropriating 24 million a year to tackle this illness. Addiction, opioid overdose and other overdoses, account for 112,000. You add the 300 50,000 people who die of alcoholism, which of course no one really acknowledges as a Major Public Health issue. Then you add the 50,000 who successfully tak
Indicating your time is almost up. When your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. We will take Public Comment from persons in city hall first and then open up the Remote Access lines for those persons calling in to submit their testimony. You need to call area. Code 415 a6550001 and enter access. Code 26611397622. And enter pound twice, at which point you should be able to hear or listen to the hearing live and you need to wait for the item you are interested in speaking to and for Public Comment to be announced to comment, you must enter star three to raise your hand and once youve raised your hand, you will hear the prompt stating that you have raised your hand to ask a question. Please wait to speak until the host calls on you. When you hear that you are unmuted, that is your indication to begin speaking. For those of you joining us via webex, please log in via the link found on todays agenda and enter password cpc