There a motion. Missouri any comments no nope ill call for a vote. All in favor, say i. Thank you. Ill note no Public Comment for the item. The audience this is the first time ive chaired ill not get it right so. You have a skilled secretary here to help you laughter so we move on to item 3 the directors report. Good afternoon wanted to lead the issue on the waiver because we do have a couple of is to have staff people to address this so ill leave that alone and move on to the next item and right after my report well have a couple of Staff Members to report on that the San Francisco Health Commission has worked with the San Francisco Police Department the dope project for the current overdose just to let you know San Francisco has the largest number of over disposes in california weve work hard to curve those Overdose Deaths on thursday august 27th the Police Department said a Police Officer o Police Officer said saved the life of that person the june incident marked the first time the
Like the Substance Abuse medical is the bridge to reform waiver as of 13 it is a demonstration waiver 1115 waiver called the organized Delivery System of medical waiver so the state amended the state plan and made a parole to cms approved this august to show it if they increased the Services Covered by drug medical that they could by organizing the system and having smooth trisz from levels of care and using evidence based practices they could improve the care and overall costs of medicaid would not go up you can opt in or not opt the community likes a demonstration waiver they should we we already do so were coming in and the bay area was chosen as phase one so there are several tasks for Substance Abuse services im in charge of one to have the implement plan with the timelines for everything and another one to set rates we negotiate with the state and make a new contract we want the rates to be realistic because if you compare grants the drug medal there is a huge increase in account
So im hopeful that the Budget Committee conference will revisit or at least come up with a product that has not been discussed which will accomplish the objective of putting this country on a fiscally sustainible path for the long term, coming up, treasury secretary jack lew on implementation of the doddfrank regulations. And president obama at the white house hanukkah reception. Later, the democratic steering expiring hearing on Unemployment Benefits. Span, washington journal looks at the mission and role of the National Institutes of health. Starting live at 7 30 eastern with director Francis Collins on the medical research priorities. Future projects and the impact of sequestration. At 8 00, allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci followed by derek green director of the National Human Genome Research institute gave at 9 00, harold varmus. At nine 30 come i look at the National Institute of Mental Health with director thomas in cell thomas insel. All with your comments
Something terrible from his past. In eight weeks we have had an uprising, a pandemic, and an economic shutdown and it is only halfway through the year. Who knows what is going to happen between now and november. For the moment, trump has shown an inability the rise to the occasion. Adam serwer, whose great piece can be found in the atlantic on line or i think in the print magazine. I dont know. Did we do that anymore. No, it is on line. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. That is all in for this evening. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, chris. I owe you one my friend. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Time being the operative word there. I will tell you, speaking of time, i was initially scheduled to have today off from work. There is a small mouthed bass somewhere in range of my canoe that i urgently need to meet, and soon if i am going to maintain my sanity. But i dont have a day off toda