bills, real-life examples of how many consumers are faced with these additional payments, often associated with emergency healthcare costs and hospitals, from the brookings institution, two hours and 20 minutes. thank you for braving the weather to get here. i guess that s the wrong note, you are planning to come february 20 as well, i m glad we could get together today, and so many of the panelists were able to make it today as well. my colleagues and i have been working on the issue, of surprise billing since the beginning of the shafer initiative in early 2016. it has been striking how much interest in the issue among policymakers has grown since then, and how many states have enacted policies to address it. this continues to accelerate. a grant from the john arnold foundation made last year has enabled us to substantially expand our activities, and led directly to this conference and the paper on policy options for states, that was released in february around the origin
how many consumers are faced with these additional payments, often associated with emergency healthcare costs and hospitals, from the brookings institution, two hours and 20 minutes. thank you for braving the weather to get here. i guess that s the wrong note, you are planning to come february 20 as well, i m glad we could get together today, and so many of the panelists were able to make it today as well. my colleagues and i have been working on the issue, of surprise billing since the beginning of the shafer initiative in early 2016. it has been striking how much interest in the issue among policymakers has grown since then, and how many states have enacted policies to address it. this continues to accelerate. a grant from the john arnold foundation made last year has enabled us to substantially expand our activities, and led directly to this conference and the paper on policy options for states, that was released in february around the original meeting date, we are grate
approximately. this a reminder that under the administrative code 67 a-1 the ringing of set all pagers or turn the device completely off now our regular meeting of tuesday, november 8, 2016, and the time is 901 item one roll call commissioner president francee covington commissioner vice president ken cleaveland commissioner nakajo commissioner michael hardeman chief of department chief joanne item 2 general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction with respect to agenda items, speakers shall address their whole and not to individuals. commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with the speakers, the lack of a response does not constitute an agreement of support for statements during public comment. thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public of that wants to address the commission okay. at this time seeing none, public com
approximately. this a reminder that under the administrative code 67 a-1 the ringing of set all pagers or turn the device completely off now our regular meeting of tuesday, november 8, 2016, and the time is 901 item one roll call commissioner president francee covington commissioner vice president ken cleaveland commissioner nakajo commissioner michael hardeman chief of department chief joanne item 2 general public comment at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction with respect to agenda items, speakers shall address their whole and not to individuals. commissioners are not to enter into a debate or discussion with the speakers, the lack of a response does not constitute an agreement of support for statements during public comment. thank you, madam secretary is there any member of the public of that wants to address the commission okay. at this time seeing none, public com
agenda given the length of the agenda a long closed session handling discipline matters one and 2 to our meeting next week and go ahead and start with general public comment. so public comment will be two minutes given the length of the agenda and the anticipated number of speeches. item 3 the public is welcome to address the commission on items not on tonight s agenda but within the jurisdiction of the commission. with respect to agenda items, please direct your questions to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or departments or occi personnel. department, occi or commissioners are to respond to questions but may provide a brief response. police commission should enter into debates and please limit your comments to 3 minutes, please. two minutes. okay general public comment? go ahead. good evening and welcome. good evening my name is magic i came from the sunshine task force they found the commission in violation of 67.9 and 67.7 b and