we are here doing what san franciscans do best. we are improvising. we made what? ly we made soup out of out of lemonade. i want everyone to remember that back then san francisco was pretty dark. i know some remember that. we have an incredible fire department. the fire department and police department are the strongest safety units anywhere and i know in any situation we can get through it because we are san franciscans. my colleague president david chiu. >> good morning san franciscans. i can't believe you were here in 1906. i would like to welcome you. we know in 1906 this was ground zero. i want to thank all of you and want to thank our men and women in uniform from our fire department and police department who have sacrificed over the years and been part of our early response system. when the alarm woke me up this morning, i didn't know exactly what was going on and i think that is appropriate because when the earthquake happens there is a great deal of confusion. unlike 1906, we are much better prepared. with that being said, i still have nightmares that at so

estimates the rates of insurance and uninsurance, these data show that approximately 84 thousand san franciscans are uninsured, 60 thousand aof these are enrolled specifically designed to protect the unschroeder, healthy san francisco was created in 2007 to coordinate care for san franciscan's uninsured, this is by the department of public health as well as clinic, hospitals and physicians across the city, more than 50 thousand participants have access to more than 37 health care homes and they are provided with specialty services, pharmacy services, primary care services and more. sf task is a program that began, sf path is similar to san francisco but it's available to those people who will be available for medi cal come january 1, 2014. the current 10 thousand enrollees were enrolled, they will be all the nautically enrolled in medi cal in january where the sf path program will end. these two programs, healthy san francisco and sf path have put san francisco well ahead of the health reform implementation curve compared to other states in the nation, healthy san francisco was created in 2007 a

right now, i know that san franciscans are getting ready for enrolling in the aca which the enrollmentegins on october 1 of this year for coverage that would then begin january 1, 2014. later on this year, and we're thinking around october, we plan to have a hearing that will focus on women's health and how women's health will be impacted by the implementation of the affordable care act. in the coming months, i look forward to a lot of lively discussion about the exciting moment in history in the history of this country where quality health care will become more accessible to so many americans. i wanted to start off the series of hearings on the aca with a discussion about the importance of maintaining our landmark health care security order and as you remember, this law was authored by my predecessor, former district 9 supervised sore now assembly member tom am yan noe, this serveesed as a model for the country for how to do health care reform and we know that we have heard from many moses if washington dc before the aca was passed that they were looking to san francisco as a model. m

passed it, californians didn't, san franciscans passed it, when we got to cfo's, we couldn't have it all by itself in san francisco, so we brought in all of the different force, we brought the federal government funding, the state funding and the employer's funding to help provide access for everything, acso is not just san francisco healthy, healthy san francisco, it's both, the mandate from the employer so they should pay their share as well as everybody, and as your attorney said today, we think aca is coming in, we're excited about the possibilities, we wanted to work but we need both systems in this city to ensure that all of our san franciscans, undocumented people who work less than 30 hours a week, all san franciscans can have access to health care, please, it's not that complicated, people won't make it that comply skated, we need both systems implemented as soon as possible, thank you very much. >> next speak e please. er >> my name is dina long and i'm the polling si director at the clinic consortium, we serve about 10% of san francisco's overall population and we serve a

this is a big win for san franciscans, a very big win for san franciscans. so, i really do want to offer my very special thanks to the entire emerald fund for this wonderful gift. and i'd like to turn it back to matt. (applause) >> thank you, row mary. and now it is my special honor to welcome to the podium the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor ed lee. (applause) >> thank you, matt. good afternoon, everybody. you know, i've been thinking about how special this announcement is today and it's just july. i've been trained all my life not to expect gifts until the end the year when it's closer to the holidays. but looking at this unique relationship of the parks alliance, with the emerald fund, and with the city and county of san francisco, it is very special. it is indeed a smart, very special gift to the city as a whole. and let me say why it is. you know, we used to and we have been always talking about public-private partnerships. well, now there's three ps. it's public and then it's private, and then it's semi private. the parks alliance

participants utilizing it, as the name imply, healthy san francisco promotes good health, all san franciscans have a right to affordable health care, let us maintain a healthy san francisco by not eliminating this program and by keeping the employee spending requirement by protecting the health care security ordinance. thank you. >> thank you very much, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors, thank you for having this hearing, thank you for your stamina. so, my name is romagi and i was on the health commission for 12 years, it felt like 20, under mayor brown, during that time as connie ford referred to, we try today do two things, one, equal access to health care for every resident in san francisco, two, universal access to affordability, and out of that came the health care services ordinance under the leadership of amiano, and by a vote of 11-0, signed by the mayor, it was passed in all of its lovely promises. this still stands today, under aca and the exchange as you have already said, we will expand access and that's a great thing, but today we hear that the attack is really about a

so as a california based san francisco not-for-profit our mission is to make sure all san franciscans have quality care. i'm thrilled you're happy with the rates of the city and county of san francisco (laughter) i'm equally thrilled we've been here. since 2004 we've attributed about $4,000 and we're very proud of that (clapping) >> and frankly the only thing i'm more proud of is that today, we have more than 1 hundred blue shield employees here volunteering their time (clapping) so with that thank guys four being here today (clapping). >> thank you janet we also have sprint with us. they have been with us from the beginning. we have every single event people who haven't talked with their loved one that these sometimes, people come in and haven't talked to their loved ones for years and so we want to thank you for bringing our wonderful volunteers and for coming ageism event so people can connect with their loved once. >> good morning this is a rally so let's hear interest. i'm chris and i'm so exist to be standing here at the public and private sector for the magic of homeless connec

we are having an infusion that is pushing the heart and - san franciscans have lost their homes and we must add more subsidies that it is assessable to thetox

mark third generation san franciscan. there are a few positive elements to the project one is the line that be with expanded for 5 shopping centers but the effectiveness is that the pedestrians it it for them or the buses themselves. it seems like it will speed up the buses case in the let's take the 2819th avenue bus line one is for you - currently you walk 3 blocks and wait for a bus. under the t p you have to walk an additional long block then while waiting on 19th after the closest stop the 28 passes you bye so how will that effect getting to your destination quicker. furthermore, eliminating stops doesn't suspend service that much. let's say you have 10 pedestrians at one stop and another stop that's going to be eliminated. at one stop it takes time for those 20 people to board the bus under the t e p you have the same people board at one stop. it basically takes the same amount of time. i grant you it does take a little bit more time but is that time savings worth eliminating the stop for passengers who have to walk