Mr. Speaker, for the past 20 years, as a practicing lawyer and business owner, i have seen firsthand how companies have tried to grow and create more jobs, but they simply cant due to the strangling grip of obamacares employer mandate. Small businesses tell a story of how their current plan was canceled and how they were forced by obamacare into a health plan that covers less with higher copays and higher deductibles, along with unsustainable increases in premiums. Simply stated obamacare is crushing Small Business across this great country. And despite the urgency of the crisis, the president has decided to dig himself in and promised to veto any commonsense reforms such as removing this employer mandate. So if the white house has decided not to collaborate with congress to ease the burdens on families and businesses, then the only path we have is full repeal. Along with that mr. Speaker, we need to move forward and develop Commonsense Health care reform that not only respects familie
Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected and even read the charge that president reagan had made at one time in determining what a Defense Budget should be and the reason im saying this is i look and i agree with senator reid who talked about the inadequacy in meeting the threats. I agree that director clapper when he says looking back over my more than half century in intelligence, ive not experienced a time when we have been beset by more crises and threats around the globe than we are right now. That and in light of the fact that we a
When we talk about the babyx÷n . n . Boomer generation we all get older. What will be our first presenceu÷n . n . n . To get care at home or get care in a hospital setting. These are really things that we have toan . n . Find out before wezn . n can actually haveyn . n . A more indepth conversation, i think. Commissioner pa pating mentioned were looking into all Healthcare Partners to make sure we meet the needs. Like changing demographics. I think this is something that we also have to start planning and have another discussion. Its agenda item and how were preparing for all of these change. Commissioner pating. I dont know if you want to move to the resolution. I actually think these two nuances i like to capture in the resolution. On the one hand, with regards to the first dissolve, just discuss it briefly. As our new commissioner the process that we use for prop q. Prop q we hold an issue preliminary hearing with a draft resolution. We do not act on that draft resolution. Leave t
Hearing on our proposed budget for fiscal year the next two fiscal years fiscal 1 5 1 5 16 15, 16. We introduced a number of proposals which Commission Voted to forward the Mayors Office at the time. However we had not fully plushed out what the proposal will be for our i. T. Program. We did leave some allocated balance, and the specific program was not called out in those prior hearings. We committed it . Back to you this month to finalize that proposal. As we had discussed previously at prior hearings the budget that we have proposed complies with the instructions from the Mayors Office. We have met the instructions. We have covered a year to general fund savings target. We funded our increases internally within the budget. We have restored significant plan reduction to Community Programs that was adopted in previous budget. What we are moving forward with today is a set of some minor adjustments to previous initiatives. Then some Additional Savings proposals that would increase pot
Competent that Community Base needs and helping people move towards being independent. I think the splitting might be helpful for us as we get to the resolution later on. Last thing will be, on the future report, separating out the short term and the long term beds. I to think that laguna honda has a long term placement. Those beds are different. All of those comments will be like where we like to capture the n . n . If were going toa . n . Do that, we need to definen÷n . n . n . What is what we know about short term. Im sympathy to what commissioner chung and karshmer raised. Thank you. Commissioner chung. I think thats a good suggestion to keep out short term and long term Skilled Nursing facility beds. If we Say Something like what we really considering is whether this is detrimental impact on the continuity of post acute care. That would make better sense. Thank you. Part of that deals with the language of the prop q to which we need to find whether it is or is not detrimental. We