Affordable care act demanded that coverage at policies have minimum coverage requirements, and thats why because the cost of many of those policies have gone up and people have been notified and then they cannot get those policies january 1 of 2014 because the there demandedo include some an additional things. Why would Medicare Advantage not cost more . Because there are more things in it, more provisions, Preventive Care, annual physical examinations, a nurse checking up to make sure that the patient got the medications filled, return for their appointment and timely follow up. So together that program and thats what this is all about, im looking forward to what the witches has to say about it. It made no sense to cut 300 billion out of a program that 29 of Medicare Beneficiaries had chosen, and its gone up over the years, each and every year but i just about. The gentlemans time has expired. The chair recognizes the Ranking Member americas mr. Dingell five minutes for an Opening Sta
Because ronments thank you but that is a whole other topic. But i also think that we dont in america we are more into john wayne than john dewey. John wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. You take a School District in southern l. A. County, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. Actually, that is how i got to this. Hey solve problems and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. So this has really become baked into their culture. Talked about this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. The same in terms of cincinnati, new haven. Places, montgomery county, there are actually places where through thick and real when people have respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than arguments, you see real collaboration and working through a bunch of issues because teaching children i
Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak up . The person who was pro education won. So there is something going on in the country that is about, yes, working hard. Nobody wants a handout. But lets level the Playing Field so we have great Public Education and we have ways for people to enter or reenter or reenvision the middle class. You may call that populism, but frankly when you hear pope francis Start Talking about that, too, i think we have had a lot, a lot of years of trickle down economics and austerity based economics, and it ha
San francisco examiner, the dog patch. The Democratic Club and the executive association and please vote for thea selby for district five supervisor. Administration has been planning for many years on building a new facility for the Chinese Community. Without this legislation, the planning code would not allow us to build a new hospital, right here on this site. It is our dream to have something to continue on for our future. But now, our dream is becoming a reality. I would like to bring up the one supporter, the friend, who helped us, the organization and the project, the mayor of San Francisco ed lee. [ applause ] thank you, brend brenda. Good morning, everyone, welcome to the chinese center, where the hospital has been since the late 1800s. This is history for all of us. It is history for our city. And those of you who know about that history, know that chinese hospice was built in a time when immigrants came here and faced discrimination. They faced a whole lot of barriers. They c
Okay. Mr. Mayor good morning everyone. I am mr. Alva residence and the director of the Housing Authority and today mayor lee will be announcing one of the most extraordinary funding announcements in the history of my 26 years in this business to ever occur. Today were going to get twins. Were going to get the mayor is going to talk about two Choice Initiative Planning Grants, this i believe culminates the mayors leadership, cements the idea for hope sf and restores hope to hope sf and we have resident leaders here, the commissioners. I want to be clear this is a priority for the Housing Authority. Its a priority for me. Its a priority for the residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to