Incredible and the stake holders and i want to thank him as well. And i want to join garcia to give dr. Zevin the accolades because we recently celebrated. And i think that that is something that as a city and we as a Health Department with be proud of because we are leading the way for good and really appropriate transgender healthcare and with that i actually have a question. And it is really about the role map that that you have mentioned at the end. And the providers of the surgeries and i believe that there are some conversations happening before, and at ucsf which is teaching institute. And so, creating a center of excellence through this partnership. I think that is a great question and i think that the workers working on this, and includes carlisle and the chiefs at San Francisco general in plastic surgery, and urology and obgyn as well as the . The first words is that this should be a center of excellence for transgender care in our system. And i think that it is way essential
And i think that that is something that as a city and we as a Health Department with be proud of because we are leading the way for good and really appropriate transgender healthcare and with that i actually have a question. And it is really about the role map that that you have mentioned at the end. And the providers of the surgeries and i believe that there are some conversations happening before, and at ucsf which is teaching institute. And so, creating a center of excellence through this partnership. I think that is a great question and i think that the workers working on this, and includes carlisle and the chiefs at San Francisco general in plastic surgery, and urology and obgyn as well as the . The first words is that this should be a center of excellence for transgender care in our system. And i think that it is way essential that we are working with the high degree of medical expertise at ucsf. And i dont need to be the first one to say that a large Academic Medical Institution
Today. Be it medicare, tricare, private insurance, fehpb for those federal employees and when they dropped that they would immediately go into the va system for two years. I want to ask you to stop and think about that for just a second. To a veteran on medicare, theyre going to drop their medicare, go into the va for two years . And then pay the penalty to get back into part b medicare . For an employee who has private insurance, theyre going to drop their insurance and leave their spouse uncovered because they see some advantage to being on va . Its estimated that 90 of those veteran who is are eligible but not enrolled in va have less than 50 disability rating. The threshold to where its va care comes without a copay. These are individuals who have already made a determination that the coverage theyre under is the best coverage they could have. If not, they would be enrolled in the va today. So, the fact that cbo now says with just the execution of this minor reform legislation it w
The presiding officer are there think senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 95, the nays are 0. And the nomination is confirmed. There will be now two minutes equally divided prior to the vote on the crawford nomination. Mr. Leahy madam president . The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy is this the crawford nomination . The presiding officer the senator is correct. Mr. Leahy leahy strongly suppoy both senators from vermont. And i might say also by the people of vermont. And i yield back all time. The presiding officer without objection, all time is yielded back. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. There is. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the president pro tempore on the vote of the confirmation of Geoffrey Crawford of vermont to be u. S. District judge, the vote is 95 yeas, zero nays. The nomination is agreed to. And under the previous order, with respect to the conf
And so over the course of the last couple of months we have traveled all over the country from orlando, florida, from san francisco, to seattle, boston, new york, my hometown of chicago, virginia. We have talked to workers and Business Leaders and Union Leaders and academics and deans and stakeholders from around the country all helping us figure out what we do to change that paradigm and reflected in this room and watching us online are all of you who have contributed to the agenda for today and also the announcements that we will be making. So thank you very much. We have ln listened to your stories. Since i have the podium, im going to tell you mine. I remember very vividly, i wont tell you exactly how many years ago. Well, maybe i will. 28 years ago and some change i was sitting around a Conference Room table at 2 a. M. 8 1 2 months pregnant. I kept trying to slip my swollen feet up on to a chair where nobody would notice, and for the women in the audience who have been pregnant, y