this is heather tear with united health care plan. united health care has launched many initiatives to support clients in communities with the covid-19 pandemic. in addition, we recently shared with sfhss that we're going to be returning 10% of the monthly sfhsshso fees paid to help alleviate some of the financial pressures. as many of us know, many of our plans have members that are older or have chronic health care issues, so we continually work with our health care providers and best-in-market netwo best-in-market-network pricing for our plans as well as group network plans for our city and county of san francisco members. thank you. >> thank you. i'm happy to answer any questions, president breslin. >> president breslin: any questions from the board members? >> president breslin: no questions from the board members? i will ask for a motion, then. >> commissioner scott: this is commissioner scott. i move the acceptance and staff recommendations contained in the presentation now on page 29 and i've forgotten the earlier page and the

we'll be presenting those in two weeks, on june 11, but united health care does offer a dental h.m.o. as a plan choice to go along with the delta dental p.p.o. and the delta dental care h.m.o. with regard to the rating, you asked about both the family adjustments for early retirees as well as the rate zabl -- rate stabilization. we were evaluating the rates hearing differences between the single tiers and the full family tiers between the united health care plans and the other available health care plans to early retirees and determined while there are not many early retirees in t-- taking the family health care plan spmp. we felt it was important to look for opportunities to help create a more consistent approach to rating for early retirees in the united health care versus the other plans. and so that's created an environment that's allowed us to lower the rate for the early retirees, and the early retiree families. and for the rate stabilization, the rate stabilization policy does describe both for deficits and reserve surplus balances. it is meant to help stablize the impact of ra

this is heather tear with united health care plan. united health care has launched many initiatives to support clients in communities with the covid-19 pandemic. in addition, we recently shared with sfhss that we're going to be returning 10% of the monthly sfhsshso fees paid to help alleviate some of the financial pressures. as many of us know, many of our plans have members that are older or have chronic health care issues, so we continually work with our health care providers and best-in-market netwo best-in-market-network pricing for our plans as well as group network plans for our city and county of san francisco members. thank you. >> thank you. i'm happy to answer any questions, president breslin. >> president breslin: any questions from the board members? >> president breslin: no questions from the board members? i will ask for a

present this as a prelude to the specific renewal discussion document for blue shield, kaiser and united health care. we'll do the same in june as a prelude to discussing the two medicare renewals for kaiser permanente, senior advantage and the united health care advantage ppl. i hope that helps to answer your question. >> it does. thank you. it's very helpful, and i know we're headed into a break. i never want to be the one standing between everyone and a break, but at the same time, i just -- just want to say, and you know, we'll get into individual items, but the comments from the callers very much resonate with me, and i think in my role on the board of supervisors i have taken a very strong stand around things like muni fare increases during this current situation. i think similarly the idea of passing on and increasing any of these costs right now on city workers and essential workers is one that does not -- really does not sit well with me, but i suppose we will take that up in the individual items that come next, and i appreciate the overview. thank you. >> president breslin: okay. we'll hav

unless we held them accountable. >> united health care has reviewed regan's case at the request of kaiserfter reviewing the service that's he received. all cost share for that visit has been rafe waive says. dr. ellisabeth rosethal joins u. >> many have decided to waive co-pays for treatment and testing, but we're hearing that's not always the reality. what happens is in his case, no one wrote covid-19 on the coding, right. so that -- when the insurers processed the bill, they don't see covid-19 code, so they think, oh, just an er visit. now there's plenty of blame to go around here. so you know, sometimes we feel like it's intentional, sometimes an oversight, and it's often hard to know because an insurer can in some ways rightfully pitch back and say -- push back and say, oh, that was just an evaluation. he didn't have covid or there was no covid test done. hence, here goes thousands of dollars to the consumer. and that's just not right. it's -- kind of breaking promises to me. >> well, you know, thank you to kaiser health news for saying, hey, you sure, don't you want to look again. an

this is for the united health care plan, non-medicare rates and premium contributions for active and retiree members plan year 2021. today, staff recommends that the health service board approve united health care city plan p.p.o. and the 2021 monthly rate cards presented in this material. the resulting aggregate overall rate increase for the combination of city plan and city plan choice not available, including stabilization adjustment for 2021, is 9%. next slide. and with prior presentations, we present rate cards for the two most common employer contribution strategies as of the start of the year for city and county of san francisco employees, and there are multiple employer contribution strategies for other active employers contributing and participating in sfhss. next slide. next slide. the recommended rate increases for the uhccp were recommended rate experience trended to 2021, the previously approved u.h.c. rate changes in 2020, and the amortization approved in the march 2020 board meeting. as we go to the rate cards, going forward -- here, we're going to talk through what the

is that we don't have a universal health care system in the united states and that millions of people have no health insurance at all and our health care system is really based on profit and not based on the people. under the vonda americans protest against down violating the basic rights that this facebook has fuel to the fire are moving one of the biggest communities in line with government policy. and the u.s. press calls for no one to trust the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff ever again after those who feel that he lied about the trunk brush occlusion investigation. thanks for joining us here on r.t. . let's begin with a regular check on the latest global coronavirus numbers total infections stand above 4700000 vitality surprising 312000 all the number of those who've recovered has risen above 1800000. the united states health care system has been inundated during the pandemic not just with patients but also criticism over the way it has struggled with the crisis now the former head of a key lab working on a vaccine is one congress if the government doesn't make

this is for the united health care plan, non-medicare rates and premium contributions for active and retiree members plan year 2021. today, staff recommends that the health service board approve united health care city plan p.p.o. and the 2021 monthly rate cards presented in this material. the resulting aggregate overall rate increase for the combination of city plan and city plan choice not available, including stabilization adjustment for 2021, is 9%. next slide. and with prior presentations, we present rate cards for the two most common employer contribution strategies as of the start of the year for city and county of san francisco employees, and there are multiple employer contribution strategies for other active employers contributing and participating in sfhss. next slide. next slide. the recommended rate increases for the uhccp were recommended rate experience trended to 2021, the previously approved u.h.c. rate changes in 2020, and the amortization approved in the march 2020 board meeting. as we go to the rate cards, going forward -- here, we're going to talk through what the

already lost their jobs and their businesses who are facing economic and then also health care especially in the united states health care worries those people will certainly be affected you know as much as they will develop depressive syndromes and depression leads to you know not only mental. mental suffering but also physical suffering and addiction might increase so it's really a vicious cycle here between mental and physical illness and a cycle social well being you know we hear almost every day that once a vaccine is developed all of our pandemic problems will be solved do you agree. well it depends i think when this vaccine will be available if if if the vaccine will what the fix seems will certainly have a tremendous beneficial effect yes i do agree with that no no no no doubt about that but if this goes up if the big scene takes a longer time to develop if we get affected way if we maybe have to go back into lockdown or if lots of more people will die. and more and more misery in terms of economic ms we also will ensue then i'm really worried about the whole well the state of the world actuall

current system. 3 major drawbacks that it has exposed is that we don't have a universal health care system in the united states and that millions of people have no health insurance at all it also has exposed that we don't have a centralized health care system it's our system is very piecemeal and bureaucratic and disorganized and because of that there's been no real leadership coming from a centralized institution telling people how to behave telling health professionals what to do making sure that we can get resources to people who need them particularly our health care providers and the 3rd thing is that our health care system is really based on profit and not based on the health of people and so instead of doing commonsense things that would have enabled us to get tests out to people to get supplies to people we're seeing this whole. scurrying of various corporations trying to see how they can profit from this situation. u.s. nursing homes have been hit particularly hard by the crisis we talked to done been named who lost relatives including his father who was in a nursing home in new york. week. 5 d

we need medical homes, and we don't really think we need medicare insurance, but united health care is the de facto medicaid here in texas. they called me yesterday to tell me they were going to take my provider hours from 25 to 24, and they are not the medicaid but the insurance. they were saying they were going to tighten up, but my question i guess to you is as a doctor, is there not a way to take this medicare andis or make it more like a system where we all utilize all of the assets and use everything instead of fighting over which part of the body and watch subspecialty and what more advanced care? we are leaving everybody behind who needs basic care. that's all i wanted to say and thank you. guest: your point is really well taken. you are right. we are very fragmented. the challenge i see when you start looking at well, what system should we all use, that everybody wants to get in on the action, and who was going to be the company that gets that big business? because that would be a huge amount of money. and what kind of oversight would we have to make sure they are doing their

so this is a time for united health care to put patients ahead of profits. >> congresswoman katie porteryou very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >>> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. bl ♪ >>> good evening. day 1,224 of the trump administration. 160 days until the presidential election. we've had trouble on the streets of two american cities tonight, minneapolis and los angeles. we'll have more on both situations in a bit. but first, we have as a nation crossed into new territory tonight as the marker of how this

people, well trained and educated, to come the united states for opportunity they can't get in their home country. and we prosper in terms of our health care because of that decision. but when it comes to decisions by the united states senate in dealing with immigration and health care, you would think that we have no use for these people. take the daca protectees, those under president obama's executive order have the protection of daca so they will not be deported from the united states and they can legally work in the united states. these are important people. and i tried with senator graham on a bipartisan amendment back six weeks ago to say that their legal status in america would be respected, at least until the end of this calendar year so they can continue to be here without fear of deportation and it was stopped. and the comment, according to senator graham from one of his colleagues was, there go durban and graham again working on the dream act. well, yes, i am. i'm still working on the dream act. you know why i do in this instance? because out of the 780,000 daca protectees, at least 41,000 of them are in the health care field t

so this is a time for united health care to put patients ahead of profits. >> congresswoman katie porterk you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >>> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian ♪ >>> well, good evening once again. day 1,224 of the trump administration. 160 days until the presidential election. we've had trouble on the streets of two american cities tonight, minneapolis and los angeles. we'll have more on both situations in a bit. >>> but first, we have as a nation crossed into new territory tonight as the marker of how this pandemic has changed this country reaches a stark and difficult to fathom high. we have now lost over 100,000 americans. 100,846 to be exact as of the time we come on the air. that is roughly equal to the

so this is a time for united health care to put patients ahead of profits. >> congresswoman katie porter, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >>> that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. bl ♪ >>> good evening. day 1,224 of the trump administration. 160 days until the presidential election. we've had trouble on the streets of two american cities tonight, minneapolis and los angeles. we'll have more on both situations in a bit. but first, we have as a nation crossed into new territory tonight as the marker of how this pandemic has changed this country reaches a stark and difficult to fathom high. we have now lost over 100,000 americans. 100,846 to be exact as of the time we come on the air. that is roughly equal to the population of the cities of tuscaloosa, alabama or burbank, california or south bend, indiana. and in this area, sadly, the united states leads the world. the cases continue to mount. right now north of 1.7 million. that's just in our country, just what we know of. the increase in deaths from early march unt

is that we don't have a universal health care system in the united states and that millions of people have no health insurance at all and their health care system is really based on profit and not based on. the. hundreds of protests against the lockdown violating the basic rights facebook adds fuel to the fire are removing one of the biggest communities in line with government policy it's. the u.s. press calls for no one to trust the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff ever again after it was. great to have you with us this is r.t. international. ok let's begin this hour with a check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now stands at just the before point $7000000.00 fatalities are approaching 312000 the number of those who've recovered tops 1800000. the u.s. health care system has been inundated during the pandemic not just with patients but also criticism over the way it struggled with the crisis now the former head of a key lab is working on a vaccine has warned congress if the government doesn't make rapid changes things will only get worse. our

is that we don't have a universal health care system in the united states and that millions of people have no health insurance at all and their health care system is really based on profit and not based on people i. think. it was. hundreds of americans protest against the law violating the basic rights of others facebook adds fuel to the fire by removing one of the biggest communities in line with government policy. elsewhere the u.s. press calls for no one to trust the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff ever again. he lied about the russia collusion investigation. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. we will begin with our daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures now total infections just above $4600000.00. approaching 300000 while the number of those who have recovered is above 1700000. ok let's take a look 1st at the u.s. health care system which has been inundated year in the pandemic not just with patients also criticism of the way that it has struggled with the crisis and now the former head of a key lab that's working on a vaccine has war

is that we don't have a universal health care system in the united states and that millions of people have no health insurance at all and our health care system is really based on profit and not based on people. hundreds of americans protest. violating the basic rights such as facebook adds fuel to the fire by removing one of the biggest communities in line with government policies. also the us press corps no want to trust the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff ever again after it was revealed that he lied about the trump russia collusion investigation. by the great to have you with us this international. let's begin it with daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now stand at about $4600000.00 fatalities are approaching 310000 the number of those who've recovered tops 1700000. u.s. health care system has been inundated during the pandemic not just with patients but also criticism of the way that it struggled with the crisis now the former head of a key lab working on a vaccine as would congress if the government doesn't make rapid changes

health care. and we know that the united states has some of the highest health care costs in the world, but we haven't getting value on our investment. we still see infant morality rates, obesity rates, hypertension rates that are well above the average, and in a bad way. despite spending more per capita on health care than anyone else in the world. so, my initiative is really-- and it was born before covid, but was really about helping businesses and communities understand when you invest in complete streets and clean air laws and invest in things we know give people the opportunity and the environment where they can more easily make healthy choices, that it benefits not just them individually, but creates a healthier work force, to make sure that destinations where people want to move to and ultimately lower turnover and increases the pool that you have support from. and critically people understand that and we've seen that come to bear in the midst of covid in a very tangible and significant way. unemployment numbers coming out and showing again, when you have a health issue, it ultimately turns in

centuries in the future even during the best of times not enough people have access to health care in. the united states. the sick care of access to health care how concerned are you about a collective. that people are dealing with and what resources they will have to deal with the other side of it the pandemic again and it's obviously the why it should be the case has shown us just how much we have under invested in basic health care around the world only about 20 percent 25 percent of workers have access to anything approaching a comprehensive social protection so that means actually just getting sickle having a health condition is a drama the great majority of people in the world there's no way through it for many of them and for all of us really us understand that this is an unacceptable condition but look at the situations that have appeared in the united states in my own country if a worker does not have access to sick pay and asked to isolate themselves from their workplace they simply won't do it they'll go to work because they need the money and that constitutes a threat to everybody in

no longer recession proof more than 1000000 health care jobs have been lost in the united states during the pandemic. a recession courts against bailouts and maybe finally a fiscal union well angle of course $500000000000.00 euro plan save the european union. the coronavirus pandemic hasn't spread a single nation or economy but the way some governments have handled the crisis has raised eyebrows brazil's right wing populist leda jaya balsam out o. has been dismissive about the health crisis and implored people to ignore state government ordered lock downs and social distancing measures the result brazil has the 3rd highest number of confirmed corona virus cases behind the us and russia a study by imperial college suggests that 700021 1000000 brazilians could die depending on measures taken to hold the progress of the pandemic its health care system has been decimated since 2017 brazil's expenditure on its national health service has been slashed by 4.4 $1000000000.00 or slightly less than a 3rd of its current budget and it's close to collapse under the sheer number of covert 19 patients

virus and contributing significant outcomes, the health care society as front miners, we have been severely affected. one in four filipinos in the unitedrses who have died because of the coronavirus. i, myself, am a survivor of the disease. however, i am well on my way to recovery. my husband succumbed to the disease and he died. a few weeks ago because of the coronavirus. now, many in new york and newjersey area, are mostly critical—care nurses. but nursing is the opposite of social distancing. six feet away from the other person but in the health care setting, nurses take care of patients. we called the patient‘s hands, administer medicine, we are there with them at all stages of their illness. we are present at the time of death. sometimes, the nurses are the last people that the patient was —— will see. -- will see. thank you very much and we are -- will see. thank you very much and we a re really -- will see. thank you very much and we are really sorry for your loss. and here in britain the queen to has been paying her respects to nurses, as daniela relph reports. my family and i want tojoin in the course of thank yous... it is a

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health care system? our intensive care units overloaded? and are our health care workers becoming infected? they are the heroes on the front line. we have to protect them. that information has to become much widely available that it is. the report that we released today on prevent epidemics.org. thanks, we look at the public health system. are we doing enough? testing, what is our productivity rate? the lower the better. only tracking contacts? this is really important. at this as i would stop the virus in its tracks. tell people you've been exposed. warn them so they can isolate themselves from others, quarantine as it is called so that if they can affect it, they don't pass it to their children or parents or friends or coworkers. if that's how you stop the virus. it is a surgical approach to making sure that the virus stops with the people who are infected and it doesn't explode in any target setting whether it is in a nursing home or church or workplace. >> neil: all right, doctor. thank you very, very much. former cdc director. i appreciate it very much, doctor. in the meantime, we want

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disease comorbidities and that is an unfortunate legacy in our health care system that we need to address. but no, the response here in the united states has been historic, to keep this within our health care capacity, even in new york city, to keep this within capacity, is genuinely an historic result. >> i want to give you an opportunity to clear it up because it sounded like you were saying the reason there are so many dead americans is because we're unhealthier than the rest of the world. i know that's not what you meant. >> oh, no, we have a significantly disproportionate amount of obesity, diabetes, these make any type of disease burden -- >> of course, but that doesn't mean it's the fault of the american people when the administration didn't take adequate steps if february. >> please don't distort, jake, this is about simple epidemiology and stating that if we have hypertension, if we have diabetes, we present with greater risk of severe complications from this coronavirus. that's all i was saying, and you know that. this is not -- one doesn't blame an individual for their health conditions. that would be absurd. it's sim

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