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Address the commission up to 3 minutes. Please insure you are in a quite location, speak clearly, press star 3 to be added to the queue. The system will notify qu when you are in line. Callers will hear silence while waiting to speak. Operator will unmute you. You may watch live at www. Sfgovtv. Org. Roll call. Morgan, present. Fraser, [indiscernible] steven [indiscernible] chief of department, Jeanine Nicholson. Present. President morgan will now read the land acknowledgment. Thank you madam secretary. The San FranciscoFire Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewa ....
Kgotv, San Francisco government television. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the may 22nd, 2024 meeting of the budget and finance committee. Im supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. Im joined by vice chair Raphael Mandelman and hopefully shortly by supervisor myrna melgar. There she is. Our clerk is brant halpa. I would like to thank eugene. Labbadia. And for from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement . Thank you, madam chair. Just a friendly reminder for those in attendance to please silence your cell phones so as to not interrupt our proceedings, Public Comment will be taken on each item on this agenda, when your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called, please line up to sp ....
Compensated in 2013, according to what you provided this committee with, correct . Yes . I think ive answered your question. Let me ask you about the travel for planned parenthood. Planned parenthood spent over 5 million on travel in 2013. Thats almost 14,000 a day. Was that first class, or was any of it charter jet . That would be nice. No. I dont fly 14,000 a day . We have eight million supporters in this country. We provide health care to 2. 7 million people. We provide Sex Education to 1. 5 million people. Is that correct . 14,000 dl 14,000 a day . Im happy to look at them. Can you provide this committee with the records that show the modes of travel that youve taken, whether theyve been first class, whether theyve been charter jets . I will work with the Committee Staff to provide whatever we can on questions that have been asked. We appreciate that very much. Let me ask ....
Million figure gets thrown around so much. Thats why thats so misleading. It is reimbursements for fee for service treatment. And like other medical providers, planned parenthood is reimbursed for the health care it provides to these patients and thats generally the way Health Care Insurance works anyway, right . Thats exactly right. Just a different insurance program. We rely on providers to take in these patients, especially since medicaid generally reimburses at a lower rate than private insurance. Thats correct. And i think its really important because in so many states, as weve talked about earlier, there are not that Many Health Care providers that will take medicaid patients. In fact, i think dr. Gosar made that point. Medicaid reimburses rather poorly. It does, although were really proud at just looking at the state of pennsylvania, we see 108,000 patients in ....