The committee will attempt to order. We are already having some technical problems. There we go. Thank you. Before i begin my Opening Statement this morning, i want to acknowledge the loss of congressman john lewis. The civil rights icon changed history. In 2015, i was honored to be among those who joined him in selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody sunday march 2011. I send my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Todays hearing comes at a time when our nation is experiencing confluence of the Health Crisis economic depression series of killings laid bare the racial injustices in our country. Our focus today is on covid19 disproportionate impact on black and latino seniors as well as seniors from other racial and ethnic minority movies. According to the New York Times analysis black and latino residents are infected with the virus at three times the rate of their white neighbors and they are nearly twice as likely to die from covid19. The state of maine h
And allowing the government to negotiate medication Prescription Drug prices. And for residents and homers to stay in their homes during the pandemic. Live coverage of the house. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, thank you for giving us another day. Those who omfort suffer from coronavirus. Healing. Bless and comfort those who mourn the loss of loved ones in wake of covid19. Psalmist, we turn to you. Have mercy upon us, o god, for treated harshly. Harshly all t us the day. Attackers. Re our almost high when we are afraid place our trust. We praise the word of god. Not fear. N god and do all the day our enemies foil our plans. Their every thought is of evil against us. Lie in wait for our lives. Our threats are many, o god. Unrest in Police Reform, aggressive russian and policies, a struggling economy. Our time of need. Bless the peoples house and may that is done be for your amen. R honor a
Pay for themselves and tickets. We dont know why you dont do enforcement. What is the sfmtas opposition to enforcing the regulations that are here to make traffic work rather than letting it be a free for all. If you want to snow slow streets suggestions talk to us, weve got ideas you could use right now in soma. We have no slow streets and we would love them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. So speaker, if you can start talking. My name is brian and i walk San Francisco vision zero organizer and member of the senior and disability workgroup. We really appreciate all walk San Francisco all that you are doing to keep us moving safely, specifically thank you for this work to speed up muni service and the transit only lanes and so we can actually keep levels high and we know that this is critical not only for public and the pandemic but also for publichealth related to the citys vision zero goal and in terms of ways making it safe to walk we appreciate the slow Streets Programm
That is our intention . And i just want to close with your questions. It feels like a half a dozen topics, but it could be a few more. But these are items that are being discussed, and i really appreciate you raising them and starting that dialogue here. Supervisor preston and thank you for your willingness to have the conversation, and thank you to all the frontline workers who have really formed both the questions and stood in the ontheground reality with folks that are living this crisis. I appreciate everyones work on this, and thanks again. Thank you. President breslin any other comments or questions . Vice president follansbee yeah, this is commissioner follansbee. I think [inaudible] Vice President follansbee regarding potential usefulness which is, of course, not firmed. So the bottom line is if a patient did not get their medications because of some complicating thing, we shouldnt be rewarding the rates based on the unavailability of medications because of overutilization else
Commissioner scott this is commissioner scott. I move the acceptance and staff recommendations contained in the presentation now on page 29 and ive forgotten the earlier page and the resulting rate cards that have been presented. President breslin do i have a second . Vice president follansbee this is commissioner follansbee. I second the motion. President breslin any other discussion . Commissioner zvanski commissioner breslin, im sorry. I was muted, but i do have a couple of questions, if i may. President breslin certainly. Go ahead. Commissioner zvanski ive noticed for some employees, the employee and family plus rate have been going down im sorry for the echo and im wondering why those rates or at least the outofpocket seems to be diminishing. I was curious about that, and i may have misunderstood something. I thought i saw somewhere there was a charge for a u. H. C. Dental h. M. O. , and im wondering what happened because i thought we had delta for employees. And the last thing, i