Thank you can, heather. I hope that was as powerful to the supervisors as it was me listening to it. The struggle so many nurses have been in so long to get an ear is very moving to me. Its also moving to me that our patients suffer from all the things that youre hearing. Were very dedicated people. Nurses are good people, were short on ego, were long on competence, we do our jobs because we care about people and we dont like suffering. What we see because of these problems is more suffering that could be fixed. So Patient Experience, im not going to spend time on this. Heather really gave you the story, but the Patient Experience due to these problems with staffing is obviously negative. I work in primary care. The worst the worst day of my week is when i have a patient who is decompensating, running out of breath, turning blue, sweating and i have to say, we got to get you to the emergency room. And the patient says, no way. [please stand by] [please stand by] to make my point, i wou
President bernal is away this afternoon on some business, so hes asked that i chair the meeting for this evening. The Health Commission will please come to order and the secretary will call the roll. [ roll call ]. Our next item, please clanchts item is the approval of the february 18, 2020, minutes. The minutes are before you for your approval. A motion is in order. I move to approve the minutes. Is there a second . Are there corrections to the minutes . All in favour say aye. All those opposed . The minutes are approved. Clerk there is no Public Comment for item 2. Item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, grant colfax, director of health. You have the directors report in front of you. I am going to highlight our covid19 coronavirus response. Dr. Aragon will have more details. I wanted to acknowledge the Department Staff who have been working for over eight weeks in terms of our preparedness and our response in terms of dealing with the coronavirus. Last tuesday
Sweet caroline. Good times never seemed so good. Ive been inclined. To believe they never would. Cheryl welcome to fbn a. M. And good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning. And cheryl, thank you for telling me that its not tuesday. Its thursday. Cheryl its been a long week. Were celebrating the fact that its thursday. Lets take a look at how your money is moving on this thursday morning. After the feds decision to leave Interest Rates unchanged, right now, the dow is up 50 points, s p up 6 andahalf, nasdaq up by 21. Lauren lets take a look at how stocks closed this thursday session in asia, mostly higher. The shanghai composite losing about a third of 1 . Cheryl were monitoring the eus conference happening right now. Theres a lot of discussion of will the eu out put in place retaliatory tariffs against the United States, a lot of this as the fight between the United States and france, the digital tax, our proposed tariffs against them, were looking for headlines right now. So
2027488002 and the line for uninsured callers is 2027488003. We always welcome your comments on twitter and facebook. Send us a tweet at cspanwj and post your thoughts on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. As we mentioned, we have talked about a lot of issues this week. This morning it is health care. This summer shows a lot of people they surveyed were thinking the same thing, the top issue facing america today, health care. Surveyed. Se carl cannon writing health care has emerged for the top issue for as the top issue for american voters. Any Political Party ignoring this topic or misreading the publics mood does so at its own peril. The new survey asked respondents to rank the policy issue they consider the most important to americas future. Just a little bit more from the real clear poll, some detail and what they found in the area of theth care 28 think Health Care System in america is broken, we need a completely new system. 39 of those surveyed said the Health Care System is not wor
Medicare for all. Maura calsyn, how much traction does it have for Bernie Sanders and others who support medicare for all . Guest i think the first question is, what do viewers and people mean by medicare for all . There are a lot of different visions for that. Reallyhink that what is gaining traction among the democratic electorate, i think, is this idea that the Affordable Care act was a good starting point. How do we build on that . There are some people who do not have coverage. People have a lot of concerns about outofpocket costs. And the medicare for all as envisioned by senator sanders is one of the different puzzles out there. I think it is one of the different proposals out there. Is Bernie Sanders plan, there are other medical plans. Host politico had a piece on where the candidates stood on health care. At the time they had 23 candidates, but it has been winnowed down somewhat. All of them are for the expansion of the aca, expanding the Affordable Care act coverage. Ippolit