My staff works really hard, and i think we are doing everything we can to make it easier for providers and for consumers to be able to access the services that are available to them and serve the people of the city. Any questions . Thank you, kelly. It might be helpful for newer commissioners if you summarized how a consumer qualifies for ihss. What are the requirements . In terms of income or right. So in order to be able to qualify, you have to be medical eligible. If you are, you would call cristas shop, and they would arrange to have a social worker come who would determine how many hours per month you are entitled to. And once that happens, you can hire whoever you want. And about 85 percent of consumers in San Francisco have a friend or Family Member that will do the service for them, which i will also just add, keeps people housed, because then they know they can get paid to provide the service for a friend or Family Member, so there will still be income coming in. 15 percent wh
More now from the National Competitiveness forum with the focus on Public Private partnerships and manufacturing. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Its great to be back with the council again. So i only have half a voice, im afraid. I left the other half in stockholm a couple days ago. I was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremonies because the National Science association supported the 3 physicists that won the prize for Gravitational Waves for 40 years. I think thats a good place to start. [ applause ] its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk high reward investment is all about. So that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome. A lot of people, as you might guess, came and went. It involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity using Super Computers so we actually knew when the first gravitational wave was detected, what the source was, that it was two
More now from the National Competitiveness forum with the focus on Public Private partnerships and manufacturing. This is an hour and a half. Good morning, everyone. Its great to be back with the council again. So i only have half a voice, im afraid. I left the other half in stockholm a couple days ago. I was very privileged to get to attend the nobel prize ceremonies because the National Science association supported the 3 physicists that won the prize for Gravitational Waves for 40 years. I think thats a good place to start. [ applause ] its good for all of us to appreciate just what a high risk high reward investment is all about. So that was a progress of technology and super duper engineering challenges that had to be overcome. A lot of people, as you might guess, came and went. It involved multidisciplinary teams of people who did the numerical relativity using Super Computers so we actually knew when the first gravitational wave was detected, what the source was, that it was two
A deal tonight that touches the live of every single American Health care. Anthem says its buying rival cigna for 250 million. The deal comes just weeks after aetna says it wants to buy humana quickly altering the landscape to five major insurance carriers to just three, assuming the announced deals get regulatory approval. Both anthem and cigna saw their shares lower in trading. The wave of consolidation is raising a number of questions about the power of these companies, competition and costs per patient. Reporter anthem and cigna say together theyll be able to cut out more than 2 billion in overhead costs and ultimately that will be good for consumers. It will improve our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and affordability for our customers. Reporter the sheer scale of the 54 billion merger will attract regulatory scrutiny. The combined company will have more than 50 million members, covering 1 in
A deal tonight that touches the live of every single American Health care. Anthem says its buying rival cigna for 250 million. The deal comes just weeks after aetna says it wants to buy humana quickly altering the landscape to five major insurance carriers to just three, assuming the announced deals get regulatory approval. Both anthem and cigna saw their shares lower in trading. The wave of consolidation is raising a number of questions about the power of these companies, competition and costs per patient. Reporter anthem and cigna say together theyll be able to cut out more than 2 billion in overhead costs and ultimately that will be good for consumers. It will improve our ability to serve customers across commercial medicaid medicare and International Markets and create greater efficiencies and affordability for our customers. Reporter the sheer scale of the 54 billion merger will attract regulatory scrutiny. The combined company will have more than 50 million members, covering 1 in