Access, it is eleven Nonprofit Community healthcare, and more than 10 percent of the citys population, and i am here today to support this legislation and illustrate why it is needed because coverage california is not affordable for the many san franciscans who currently enrolled in the healthy San Francisco coverage but eligible for coverage california. Last fall i had the pleasure to train, 115 staff from the department of Public Health on how to enroll people in the coverage california, many have been working with the clinics and the population since the Program Began in 2007 and they know these patients very well, they were so excited to learn about the program and the prospect of helping people enroll. And well, when we got to the part of the training about the cost of the premiums, the cost of the copays and the cost of the deductibles their eyes got very wide. And mouths dropped open, and coverage california is significantly more expensive than the healthy San Francisco program.
If we can have a motion to excusing supervisor mar, by spurpt sperp yee, and we can take that without objection. And if we can please call the one item that we have, item one. And it is an ordinance, revising the Healthcare Security ordinance to require all healthcare expenditures to be made to establish a city, Public Benefit program known as the healthcare, access Assistance Program. Ordinance revising the Health Care Security ordinance to require all Health Care Expenditures to be made irrevocably; to establish a city Public Benefit program known as the Health Care Access Assistance Program hcaap ; to describe the Public Benefits available under each of hcaaps three component programs, healthy San Francisco, covered San Francisco, and Health Care Access accounts; to set certain eligibility requirements for program participants; and to set an operative date of october 1, 2014. Thank you, very much. And this is an item that i have included in the agenda, and i want to thank my cospons
We want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today. Jessy larson and jonathan, thank you for your service. If we can have a motion to excusing supervisor mar, by spurpt sperp yee, and we can take that without objection. And if we can please call the one item that we have, item one. And it is an ordinance, revising the Healthcare Security ordinance to require all healthcare expenditures to be made to establish a city, Public Benefit program known as the healthcare, access Assistance Program. Ordinance revising the Health Care Security ordinance to require all Health Care Expenditures to be made irrevocably; to establish a city Public Benefit program known as the Health Care Access Assistance Program hcaap ; to describe the Public Benefits available under each of hcaaps three component programs, healthy San Francisco, covered San Francisco, and Health Care Access accounts; to set certain eligibility requirements for program participants; and to set an op
Not affordable for the many san franciscans who currently enrolled in the healthy San Francisco coverage but eligible for coverage california. Last fall i had the pleasure to train, 115 staff from the department of Public Health on how to enroll people in the coverage california, many have been working with the clinics and the population since the Program Began in 2007 and they know these patients very well, they were so excited to learn about the program and the prospect of helping people enroll. And well, when we got to the part of the training about the cost of the premiums, the cost of the copays and the cost of the deductibles their eyes got very wide. And mouths dropped open, and coverage california is significantly more expensive than the healthy San Francisco program. And these staff knew that the first time they saw the Sticker Price that it was going to be unaffordable for their patients. Staff who were very upset and even angry. They so wanted to be the bearer of the good ne
If we can have a motion to excusing supervisor mar, by spurpt sperp yee, and we can take that without objection. And if we can please call the one item that we have, item one. And it is an ordinance, revising the Healthcare Security ordinance to require all healthcare expenditures to be made to establish a city, Public Benefit program known as the healthcare, access Assistance Program. Ordinance revising the Health Care Security ordinance to require all Health Care Expenditures to be made irrevocably; to establish a city Public Benefit program known as the Health Care Access Assistance Program hcaap ; to describe the Public Benefits available under each of hcaaps three component programs, healthy San Francisco, covered San Francisco, and Health Care Access accounts; to set certain eligibility requirements for program participants; and to set an operative date of october 1, 2014. Thank you, very much. And this is an item that i have included in the agenda, and i want to thank my cospons