Several introductions today. First as you may have followed in the press in the last few weeks, we are seeing a situation where more and more drugs including hiv drugs are being placed or reclassified as socalled specialty drugs. By various insurance providers, and which means that instead of paying your standard 15 or 25 or 50 copay you have to pay a significant percentage of the cost of the drug which could be hundreds or even approaching 1,000 dollars a month. And in january we learned or i actually we learned that in january, kiaser reclassified quite a few hiv drugs as specialty drugs which dramatically increased their cost and this kind of change can have a Significant Impact for many of our residents and on our Public Health strategies to try to reduce the hiv infections by keeping people healthy and they have to be on their medication to suppress their viral load. I met with kiaser and i want to give them enormous credit for reversing the decision and removing all hiv drugs fro
Been following in the news the really troubling spike in measles, and we need to make sure that our children are vaccinated, and this is not just about individual choice, this is about Public Health and this is about making sure that every child, and every person who goes to anywhere to a school, to a playground to any public place is not exposed and especially since even those of us who are vaccinated and it is not 100 percent, it is 95 percent and this is a very, very important issue and i give senator pan credit for pursuing this and taking a science based approach to vaccine policy in california and then finally colleagues, today i am introducing interim zoning controls that will apply to the corona and the corbit heights neighborhood to help to slow down and take a deep breath with respect to a troubling trend of demolishing or effectively demolishing, smaller, existing homes, and replacing them with massive, monster homes and if you have never been to the Corona Heights neighborh
12 30 p. M. And of course, all are welcome and may ramona rest in peace and i ask that we adjourn the meeting in her memory. Thank you. Supervisor . I am wanting to join in the implementation of the rband b and we have seen the Significant Developments on this front and for one thing we now have regulation and a point that has been some what overlooked this month and secondly as supervisor campos mentioned, we have our back taxes. And i am eager to move forward with the future tax collection now that this has been clarified. And i think that it is also important that air b b is now including a field for home sharing registration numbers and is reminding its homes sharing participants of their civic responsibilities in San Francisco. And the question then is, what can we do as supervisors and as a city . To facilitate, compliance with these new regulations . And so i am happy to join supervisor ferrill in asking what we can and should be doing in Going Forward and how can we facilitate
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