for the lowest income individuals, it increases eligibility for medicaid, which is known as metical -- medical in california. for the lowest incomes, it provides subsidies for the cost of health insurance. it helps to allow people to have those subsidies to apply for health insurance and to retain health insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions and the guarantee of renewal. well some of the insurance reforms have been implemented already, most of the provisions i have just described become effective on january 1, 2014. it is anticipated as a result of health reform, 90% of u.s. residents will be insured by 2016. according to the most recent data, approximately 117,000 san franciscans were uninsured for all or part of 2009, and the most recent year this data was available. although 117,000 were uninsured, approximately two-thirds will be eligible for health insurance as a result of health reform. health reform will reduce by 67% the number of san franciscans who will be relying on services. as the 80,000 will be eligible for health insurance, 30,000 will enroll in the medical pr

the health program, the full scope metical program.quickly realized that a lot of community folks don't reach out. all of us can experience, you don't know what it happens -- these are most in need of these services, so i decided to provide most of these services and the school system. the diagnostic criteria to meet is a huge hot topic in the mental-health community right now. they are exposed to violence or experiencing symptoms of,. -- of trauma. if kids are moustaches diagnosed or overlooked, we were put on unheard -- on a meds trial. they are experiencing hyper- vigilant states of being exposed to trauma. and goodness for the community. i>> i spoke on numerous occasions. there are 35 friends, family members, community members in the 31 years. a majority is from 1998 until now. if we can reach out to a lot of these organizations that have spoke today, it is their job at their duty to reach out to the committee, we can make efforts in figuring this out. there are a lot of people that work in the community every single day that is do

we have heard about the part of affordable care which involves care by cal pacific of 10,000 new metical lives that will be a product of health reform -- medical lives that will be a product of health reform. i assume there is another -- that would be the case from cal pacific to compensate if these cannot materialize as planned. >> yes, as colleen alluded to, there is a section in the development agreement which addresses the possibility and anything that is complicated that a federal or state law may come down that may make it difficult or impossible for either the city or the hospital to honor any of the many commitments that are in the development agreement and it establishes a process where the parties can meet and confer and come up with a substitute agreement. the most likely -- hopefully not likely but the most prominent possibility if something about national health care reform gets changed, anything could happen in an agreement this complex that would require a meet and confer. we would use that section. the chances are fairly likely that we will be ok. on this. commissioner an

state health officials will decide which counties will be in a pilot program to combine medicare and metical. 10 counties are competing to be among the four chosen. the state wants to merge the two health plans into a managed health system. the goal, streamlined health care and saving money. in other news, insurance premiums rise today for more than 4 million policy owners and small business owners. at the same time, small- business coverage by aetna will get hikes of about 4%. other increases planned for may for customers in health net and united healthcare. now we turn to campaign 2012 coverage. mitt romney appears to be in good shape heading into wisconsin's republican primary. a new poll shows that romney has a seven point lead over his closest challenger rick santorum. a second pulling in wisconsin has from the up five percentage points. >> as the national republican front runner, romney is taking aim at the president's economic policies. >> his recovery has been tepid, underperformed in part because of what he has done has made it more difficult for the economy to recover. he likes to

and not only metically, just the language of welfare itself is extremely unpopular for the president.always moral documents and that should be the frame. 60% of cuts in the budge rhett taking away from poor people. this means this is actually an important organizing opportunity for the labor movement, for occupy, may day is coming up, to say, hey, red america especially, you have been relying on food stamps more than anybody else, yet your own members of congress, your observe representatives are trying to cut and eliminate that safety net. what would it have meant if you didn't have that safety net two or three years ago? this is an incredibly organizing opportunity and the question, will progressive groups be able to step into window and take advantage of it. >> and that is one of the main reasons why so many women favor the democratic party. they recognize the safety net. they feel very vulnerable in the mark place and want the safety knelt to be there. my guess, as a result of that speech and his budget plan, paul ryan won't be on the republican ticket as the running mate of mitt