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Going to our schools and making our neighborhood safe. But unfortunately even our residents that have good coverage are spending this money on medications. There are a lot of complicated issues that under lie why drug pricing is so high. There are a couple things that i would like to note that i have certainly explored with city staff on this issue. We have very little transparency on the prices set not only with drugs but also prices paid by the city and county of San Francisco. Some of the out patients are eligible to receive a low price negotiated by the federal government in the socalled 340 b program. Unfortunately its not accessible to in patients that we have in our local hospitals as well as our jails. I would also note that our city purchases many of our drugs for our inpatient populations and others with a contract through a Company Called innovation. Unfortunately the pricing for those particular drugs are covered by nondisclosure agreement and we dont have the ability to un

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