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next speaker, please. >> my name is rebecca king murrow. i'm a registered health and public health nurse. i'm here on my own time. when i'm not here i work at san francisco general and la gunedia honda hospital and i'm part of that safety net where patients end up. i'm going to look at the safety net from a different perspective. the safety net is more expensive than the preventive care. 36 years as a nurse, so i have worked on almost every unit there is. i haven't done burns and i haven't done psych. but every other unit i have been there and i have done it hands on. when a patient ends up in the emergency room, they're costs are so much greater which really sort of government and your excel spread sheets. but the costs are greater because they're subject to a bad outcome. because they waited for something that could have been prevented and now it's an emergency. and the reason i take my time to testify about the importance of this is because this is a patient that touched my heart. in 36 years, either you have a lot of patients, they come
next speaker, please. >> my name is rebecca king murrow. i'm a registered health and public health nurse. i'm here on my own time. when i'm not here i work at san francisco general and la gunedia honda hospital and i'm part of that safety net where patients end up. i'm going to look at the safety net from a different perspective. the safety net is more expensive than the preventive care. 36 years as a nurse, so i have worked on almost every unit there is. i haven't done burns and i...
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rebecca king murrow, jonathan mead. >> supervisor campos, thank you. chair david chiu, supervisor farrell. good afternoon. i'm not going to get into some of the banter that we just had a couple minutes ago. i'm tim paulson, director of the labor council. we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as everybody knows the public option and the san francisco health care ordinance that we passed with the levin zero -- levin zero super majority of the board and mayor graven newsome's signing was a very historic day. this is not -- today is not -- even though we have been talking about it for months, today is not the first short period of time we talked about this particular legislation. this was a debate that happened five years ago. this was a debate that was concluded in this historic legislation is on the books. i think we have all been over
rebecca king murrow, jonathan mead. >> supervisor campos, thank you. chair david chiu, supervisor farrell. good afternoon. i'm not going to get into some of the banter that we just had a couple minutes ago. i'm tim paulson, director of the labor council. we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as...
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rebecca king murrow, jonathan mead. >> supervisor campos, thank you. chair david chiu, supervisor farrell. good afternoon. i'm not going to get into some of the banter that we just had a couple minutes ago. i'm tim paulson, director of the labor council. we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as everybody knows the public option and the san francisco health care ordinance that we passed with the levin zero -- levin zero super majority of the board and
rebecca king murrow, jonathan mead. >> supervisor campos, thank you. chair david chiu, supervisor farrell. good afternoon. i'm not going to get into some of the banter that we just had a couple minutes ago. i'm tim paulson, director of the labor council. we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as...