Please come to order. We have a vote at 11 45 but that should leave us an opportunity to hear from our witnesses and have good time for questions. I told our witnesses that i was to d lited to be talking about something other than the individual Health Insurance market. And im really quite serious about that because we know that the larger issues in health care are much more than the 6 of the people whom have to buy their Health Insurance in the individual Health Insurance market. So were glad to have this discussion and a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest and we look forward to your advice. Today were holding a hearing to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses. After the witnesses team, senators will each have five minutes of questions. Let me say i w
Please come to order. We have a vote at 11 45 but that should leave us an opportunity to hear from our witnesses and have good time for questions. I told our witnesses that i was delighted to be talking about something other than the individual Health Insurance market. And im really quite serious about that because we know that the larger issues in health care are much more than the 6 of the people, every one of whom is important, who have to buy their Health Insurance in the individual Health Insurance market. So were glad to have this discussion and a subject on which both republicans and democrats have a lot of interest and we look forward to your advice. Today were holding a hearing to look at what can be done to encourage people to make healthier lifestyle choices to help prevent serious illnesses and reduce Health Care Costs. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then well introduce the witnesses. After the witness testimony, senators will each have five mi
We really need to investigate the balance versus potential failure and or lack of positive Program Outcomes what us in this presentation that is artie happened. That is very heartening. We look for to talking with staff about more details. I just wanted to point out to make it clear that, the pci a is going up. And up our rates i just want to make sure that thatll make our rates is higher than that. Thank your staff are doing a tremendous metalwork a very tough job but they been doing a lot of it would very changing situations. A few things that i want to bring up. A ppa process i would say the pricing is the best but that is what was needed to be done in the beginning. I think it was well worth for them to do. We should be looking at that model and also the tax credits will go away from the federal level as a fallback which is not as good as the tax credit is now. We have some options that will save us in San Francisco. The other thing is talking about the policies and procedures that
The Staff Members on the subject should state to the commissioners what is being done. You dont have to come here like the previous gentleman suggesting things but then, nothing is done about it. Water is precious. And we just take it for granted in San Francisco because we stole the water from different people we dont respect them at all. We dont even have them in some way even though we brought them here at one time and they promised to have them, nobody has reached out to them. They just take it for granted that okay that water comes so we use it for all her buildings, skyscrapers and everything. And yet, in a very general where we will talk about climate change, conservation and the footprint on not taking any concrete action in an unimaginable way to address a waste of water including our hydrant and huge pipes break. We need to capture that data so that we may have a dialogue thats gonna be a hearing. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments . Thank you, and we will move o
But then it becomes a committee platform. Joining the publishing power of the web with the Committee Power of the internet, that forming of online, you no virtual communities is where the power lies in the future. And that is clearly what twitter is. Very much the information spreading mindset. I think originally it was looked up more. That that looms in the something is very powerful. And i think if you look at any major platform today it obviously combines those elements. We didnt have comments for a long time. Who wants to talk to people . I dont want to talk to people on the internet. One of the central themes of the book as i understand it in my limited understanding that this myth the Silicon Valley creator myth you dissected over and over. Break it apart to show there ideas who invented what and how many things. A lot of people did. Those of us who are biographers no that we have a dirty little secret. We distort history. We make it seem like their is some guy who comes up with