next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor sharon johnson former health services board. don't we all wish we had single pay r? we do. but we don't. kaiser is a corporation that makes money and there is blue shield. we have to still keep our eye on the ball and the eye on the ball today is those members. because they need the continuity of their insurance coverage. retirees especially need to know that the doctors that they have been seeing for 40 years plus, they will be able to continue to see. so i ask you please to go with the transparency. don't hold up the rates and benefits package. work with the board for that transparent -- for the cost attributed to health care. i nor that you can do it. please don't play with our health care. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. i sat with the health services board and i sat on a number of those negotiations over the years. i want to ha stated that this really is about members. all of us on the health service board, all of us individually support very strongly transparentcy legislation.

i am here to support what sharon johnson brought up.had discussions and considerations about maybe strengthening that prudent standard with regard to the gasby actuary and looking at putting in a protection that says the sub fund must be two thirds funded before anything can be considered for withdraw and maybe even to consider adding the timeline as well. that might be a more prudent safe guard that we really mean we want this safe guarded. we want it protected and limited in the future for whatever the city might need, and we understand that we talked about difficult budgetary times that would perhaps open the door to drawing on these sub funds earlier than sooner and that is basically what we're here to suggest today if there is time for further amendment that amendment be considered and that we have the opportunity to work with you on the wording so thank you very much again. we think that overall this is a very prudent amendment and that it should go forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm so sorry. i have a question. you have an

. >> i want to ask you, i know sharon johnson the former health service board member acknowledged kaiser's profit making and as a corporate entity, your brothers and sisters have made some comments on lack of transparentcy and that huge profit and besides the other efforts that i'm going to guess that we all support what else could be done given that profit margin when blue shield is going down and the city plan is going down as well. >> as stated by commissioner brez lynn, we have had very high rates from blue shield in the last year. they took millions from us and our members in their language, "because they could". we ending up the accountable care organizations in order to help bring down cost and then we ultimately went to a flex funding or shared risk plan that's actually our risk in order to bring those cost down. so what you are seeing in blue shield rates really have to do with administrative cost and the cost for them to pay our claims. we bear the responsibilities of the claims. so those rates, it's apples and oranges. kaiser remains the fully insured plan. they take the full ri

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