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all, we don t have medi cal yet, the aca is more about access to insurance, healthy san francisco is about access to health care, so let s leave it in tact. thank you. thank you, next speaker? hi, my name is claudia, i ve been a san francisco resident for 30 years and i m a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the latino community and i also work with maternity child health or labor and delivery, so i m here today for personal and professional reasons. if i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. i personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how important health care is, especially to families of migrant descent. from personal experience, i have two brothers who would have foregone care if it wasn t for healthy san francisco because their private insurance plans that are offered to them require expensive co-payments for themselves and for their families. my sister-in-l ....
been a san francisco resident for 30 years and i m a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the latino community and i also work with maternity child health or labor and delivery, so i m here today for personal and professional reasons. if i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. i personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how important health care is, especially to families of migrant descent. from personal experience, i have two brothers who would have foregone care if it wasn t for healthy san francisco because their private insurance plans that are offered to them require expensive co-payments for themselves and for their families. my sister-in-law for example is a cardiac surgery survivor and i say survivor because she has my niece and nephew and in my homeland and her hard condition was never detected, because my brother was the primary head of household was able to ....
sa ns from paid 250 dollars of this bill, which if he had to pay the full amount would have put him in dire straits, he will be mandated to buy insurance now, but with his income, he would be able to afford a high deductible plan if he can afford any plan at all, we don t have medi cal yet, the aca is more about access to insurance, healthy san francisco is about access to health care, so let s leave it in tact. thank you. thank you, next speaker? hi, my name is claudia, i ve been a san francisco resident for 30 years and i m a registered nurse at kaiser for 8 year, i work in adult medicine with the latino community and i also work with maternity child health or labor and delivery, so i m here today for personal and professional reasons. if i can leave you with one message today, it would be prevention. i personally am from a migrant family, we came here when i was four, so i know extensively how important health care is, especially to families of migrant descent. f ....
my name is ali and i ve been a registered nurse here for 36 years now, to consider weakening any part of healthy san francisco now when there is so much that s unknown about the affordable care act is concerning. the employer spending requirement needs to remain in place and that s really important. i have a story i would like to tell you, i m sure we all have stories but this is a friend of my daughter, a 28 year-old full time restaurant worker would was born and raised in san francisco, he was in a serious accident last year, on his way to work, he was on a scooter and a bicyclist ran a red light and he slammed into a post, so he was taken by ambulance to san francisco general, he suffered a severe concussion, had multiple abrasions, needed dozens stitches in his knee, his helmet saved him from more serious injury, he was unable to work to work for several weeks, he received a bill for over 32 thousand dollars for his care which is more than what he made in a year, lu ....
insurance, healthy san francisco has the incentive to cut hours as well as to provide health insurance to the many san francisco residents who will not quality under the affordable care act. all residents deserve health care. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. good evening, thank you for your time. my name s kathy, i m a part time teacher with the city college of san francisco and i m a proud member of the activist committee with jobs with justice, as a teacher, i want to talk about our students, i m aware that many of our students like my god children are lower income workers and i watch my god children, i watch other students struggle if you make 14 to 15 dollars an hour, it s hard to make ends meet and i don t believe that covered california is likely to make health care affordable for them, i believe healthy san francisco is essential to the well being of our lee low-income students, make health care affordable and secure, making it secure for stude ....