Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the july 25, 2013 special meeting of the board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and im the chair of the committee, were here with eric mar, we will be joined later by Supervisor Malia Cohen bho is currently chairing the government of audits and Oversight Committee and sthe will be filling in for supervisor norman yee, the clerk of the committee is mr. Derek evans, we want to thank sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today, mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted to to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Before we move to our item, i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee, so we have a motion by supervisor mar, if we can take that without objection. I know that there are a number of people here for
People up to 500 of poverty and those who are medi cal eligible will be able to apply to medi cal without no cost to thel, so that will be an easy decision, as the income gets higher, the cost sharing gets higher. What percentage will be lgbt . I do not have that percentage. Thank you. Within the department of Public Health, we really have a twofold focus on Health Reform implementation. First is about dphs own Health Care Delivery system. We are looking to ready our system to be the provider of choice for our patients, our uninsured parents have not had a wide choice of Health Care Providers but Health Insurance provides them with that choice, we want them to choose us. A recent survey indicated that 60 of lowincome individuals who are uninsured would change their provider if they were given the choice to do so so we are responding to that challenge and integrating the service we offer throughout our Delivery System so we do a better job to coordinate the care our patients need, were
And welcome to the july 25, 2013 special meeting of the board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and im the chair of the committee, were here with eric mar, we will be joined later by Supervisor Malia Cohen bho is currently chairing the government of audits and Oversight Committee and sthe will be filling in for supervisor norman yee, the clerk of the committee is mr. Derek evans, we want to thank sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today, mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted to to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Before we move to our item, i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee, so we have a motion by supervisor mar, if we can take that without objection. I know that there are a number of people here for item number 1, we have a
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the july 25, 2013 special meeting of the board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and safety committee, my name is david campos and im the chair of the committee, were here with eric mar, we will be joined later by Supervisor Malia Cohen bho is currently chairing the government of audits and Oversight Committee and sthe will be filling in for supervisor norman yee, the clerk of the committee is mr. Derek evans, we want to thank sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today, mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices, completed speaker cards should be submitted to to the clerk, items acted upon will appear on the board of supervisors agenda. Before we move to our item, i would like to entertain a motion to excuse supervisor norman yee, so we have a motion by supervisor mar, if we can take that without objection. I know that there are a number of people here for
Provides, we believe that, that trend will not happen in San Francisco because the Health Care Security ordinance ensures that employees that work more than 8 hours are covered. This is yet another example of how the Health Care Security ordinance and especially the employer spending requirement aspect of the ordinance can work very well with the aca to provide meaningful access to health care to all san franciscans, so with that, i want to thank all of the members of the public, members of the community, the business community, labor who are here, and so it is now my pleasure to call on our fabulous Deputy Director of Public Health, Colleen Chala who is going to make a brief presentation. Is that okay . Good afternoon, supervisors, im glad to be here on behalf of the Health Department. I am as you side colleen, Deputy Director of health at the Health Department, im here on behalf of director garcia, she regrets shes unable to participate in the hearing today, but she is as we speak en