he's ignored dca white's advice. you should remove him from the task force. >> hello, i'm jackson west. previously a volunteer member of the task force. i wanted to come and support the previous members i worked with, mrs. washburn and mr. wolf, also support the other mr. wolf, but particularly to support mr. hepner and [inaudible]. i understand directly how frustrating the process at the sunshine task force meetings can be, the ultimate frustration has been in the lack of effective independent council, independent that is of the city attorney's office, especially in the absence of the ethics commission taking up task force complaints, so as a former member, i wanted to endorse hef ner who i know will be effective attorneys to speak on the task force both within and without meetings. cheers. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm richard. i'm a member of the task force and i'm speaking here as an individual. i have a question to raise about the candidacy of topra who is on the new american nominee. first let me say that

recap, most of us understand what some of the shortcomings or in the individual market prior to the dca, but to level that, prior their rates in the individual market were unstable and highly variable. there was also an immense amount of variation across the country in terms of how states regulated plans to which you can see in this slide. for example, not every state conducted rate review. some did it for in formation of purposes. even states with prior approval processes, many at that time that meant that the rates insurers were proposing went into effect and let the state take action. public access to rate and review data was limited. only 13 states have access. there is much variation in taos states made their rate review information public. what that means is that prior to they see a they are limited in their ability to look for cross plans across base, and across the country to make conclusions about those adequacies as well as the affordability. so as we all saw no regulation of health insurance and health insurance market has historically fallen. the affordable care act to provi