healthcare.gov numbers. now it is your turn to weigh in. democrats, (202) 585-3880, republicans (202) 585-3881, and independents, all others, (202) 585-3882. you can also send us a tweet @cspanwj or post your comments on facebook.com/c-span and e- mail us journal@c-span.org. callsl get to your phone we thoughts in a minute, but have someone joining us on the phone. everybody has known the numbers since yesterday afternoon and lots to say about them, but let s begin first with what the white house had to say when they released these numbers. [video clip] are you there? guest: hi. the white house was trying to downplay expectations about these numbers. everyone knew that they would be poor, and yesterday, president obama did not have anything direct to say about them, but the administration was upbeat. they said the people are online and shopping in the marketplace. they predicted that enrollment would ramp up over time, which is what we have seen in other programs like medic
to thank you and to commend you for your achievements. we wanted to do that on our agenda. we thought, why not? we didn t kind of know where to put it on the agenda. we said why not put it at the beginning, you know. you can t say thank you enough. and, so, maybe one thing, colleagues, if it s okay, maybe monica can read our resolution that we have to thank director nutter for everything she s done for us and for the city and for the environment. commending director melanie nutter, department of the environment. approval of resolution commending director melanie nutter for her service to the department of the environment and to the city and county of san francisco. whereas mayor gavin newsom appointed melanie nutter director for the san francisco department of the environment in august 2010 and whereas melanie nut r has continued to direct the department of the environment and provide san francisco s leadership under mayor edwin m. lee and whereas melanie nutter directed th
on a ban where we don t have an available supply of water that public health and hydration remain very important to us. other commissioners? any other discussion? all right. a motion is on the floor to approve and can we hear all those in favor please say aye? aye. those opposed please say nay. ayes have it. thank you. [gavel] department of the environment director search process and candidate qualifications. this is a discussion item. colleagues, can we get a motion to move item 9 to come after we hear item 13 on the agenda? motion to do that. a second? second. all those in favor please say aye. aye. opposed say nay. all right. so move item 9 to after number 13. [gavel] thanks, colleagues. briefing on the previous year s implementation of the healthy air and clean transportation ordinance. speakers are robert hayden, manager of commutesmart and clean vehicle, and william zeller, clean vehicle program coordinator. this is a discussion item. thank
i used to work for a company come and large companies of about 20,000 employees. our insurance ran for all of us was around $400 a month. that s the full cost to the company. for the health insurance. now, and what we ve got here is a situation that we re trying to fix this and if we want to fix this what we would really do is say, take the health insurance, turn it all into individual policies. in its companies wanted to pay for each employee s insurance, they could pay it is an individual policy. in other words, each individual policy, and there s a model for this. aflac does this all the time. host: can you wrap this up very quickly? caller: if they wanted to do this host: we got the point. guest: thanks. personal with regard to sincerity i hope you realize that we are very sincere that the affordable care act isn t going to work, it s not good for america to help america gets the message that s what we ve been saying since we got elected as majority of house and
and really, a big reason why i wrote five days at memorial is i really feel that these questions, difficult, conundrums that arose during katrina are things that we all have as a public, should have a say if they re not the purview of just small group of doctors on the front line and emergency, but something we should all think about before disaster ever happens. so we ll get into some of that, and i ll just start with kind of summarizing the book is setting up some of those dilemmas all of it and read just a tiny bit of where dr. baden comes in and then we will discuss. the question, do exceptional times allow us to make exceptions to moral rules? or does a time of crisis called for an even eager commitment to our deepest moral values? that is kind of essentially one of the questions that is at the heart of hurricane katrina five days at memorial as post by one of the eminent medical ethicists. memorial medical center was surrounded by floodwaters after hurricane katri