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is veryloete resints in into ple. mla so veealtpr silastr and it's ttg worsand wors my fy doctoris h mdiclic, bu inrder to bk an aoime anten when i wosemy
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see a specialist see speciali i had wait anhetwo nthsto get an apoie. so melthhas bee worsea woe but i ave o justrely on painkill and ot overhe-counter medications cause haveo waitohs toeeaocto brotr.s yyuge i don't now tenme f e disease buas very sick, hehrwi ad we needed tgethimto an emergencroom. we called 911. so we got o thegeneral
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hospitalecause the was so manyatients dnot enoug octors, even ough my brotr the llway witho one o see him fohors. they wouldt letthe famiy in the emergency room toee him so we were waitingi he waitg room but after hours i wept in to fin him and he ws there covered in omet. ere wasomet ehere. headthrowi up al overimselfadtheehadeen no one to atnd to him. so iwaso aican paicked for myther, i was nning arou lking for anybody, a doctowho can and begging emo keare
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of himndhey wenand loked at him but tre were somany people w were even in woe condition that after aew minutes they just left. om thesewo examples yo can e,especiallyfor low icme and immigrant commuities, we anslation and other alts, services rour community. anthewaiting line are so bad that wn i avean8:00 appoinment at genel hospital i have to leave at 6:00 in e morning get therend i noseenntil 3:00 inhe afrnoon. we realleed this master plan thank you. >> hel. [speaking foreig anguage]
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>> helo. i'm a meer of c.a. and i livetmiiobaandi do community work i chinatw. so'm he srongly suort e al care servicesmaster plan for seral reasons. the first one, because of language baries. the second because alth re seices arenotafordable. the thrd isbecause services are not adequateleainuo haveery long aittimes. an outly, because eei the end whenwe get seen by the ctor we can't t the rvices that weeed.
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so i'l gie you aersonal example to show you why i believe in ts. i wavinerrible ooth ache foreveral day it was rlly painu a when i really couldn't ke anymore, i finally went totry e ctor b iwtto te doctor, my pesoa oto, and they said he coul -- they di't have the technology they needed to take care f my o ache.
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sohey sd they had to hve me seeat general hospital an that iado waitixayto beee i'm aleady n smuchpain i hato wait six moe day and then whei get the, iave too throh all this reaucracy, allhis paperwork and jump though all these hops -- hoops and then finally i ge seennd ty say ineed rays. at th nd, they fialygo the y,ado wait anoer y toet the x-r,me c and they sai ok,nw look at my insurance said, well, yur surance only covers half so
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yohave topay half of the moy. at ts inmyoothad already beenn pain so may case tt point my toothdidnt rtmy hea i waed this ng, i've tried this har get sn a doctor and now ian't afford get tprobmfixed. so, until now they stl haven't pulled the tot and that'shy we needto conider. i'm st onexample. need to hava compehensive health ca plan. communities wiiffere eds. i'm just one example of th manyeeds that our commuiti ha for healtcand that's seices master plan tt can mehendividual eds of each communi. >> thank you very much
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prident chiuthank you. ha aewe names. lucy, ohn, alex, nato,lda. i knowhe a aumber o peopletheyhaveeft. please go ahead >>y me natalie. i amih the chinese prressive association. i am here day in suport o the hethare services mstr plan. currently in san fraisco there is nplan to evalua where medical acilitiesor helh services aread were they are needed the mos. i reny live in h ortola districtf an fraisco i district nin and the health services in there are limited, are acking my mom haseen suffering bck pains, severe backpai, ov tpast yea an i order for r to go se her health careror se has t take e muni for over n hou to th chmondistrict. even tn she alsofaces lauage difficulties becau
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soe needhis fo san ancisco, t evaluate future health sevices dhalth medicalservies,o that i o toheples thaneed itheos so hankyou thank you very muh -- mu rob smith, rnlack. jerry. >>dafnoo, spervisors. i'm thexeive directoro the chinepgressive association. i just wante tpua ttle many peoplcomeouody. it's partiallyecause of is legislation, ao because back in 24 c.pa.actually did a lotof work ite e needs oftechinese atre community and we did suvey ross neighbrodsf bay
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ewadwe foun that hth care ac is he -- aess wao the ls dso iswa a imrtt issue for usbecause we have seenhat a lt ofor members dn in soteastt realadotraveveyfa st to getto seeny cuurally comte hlt ca servicecaedo in southet ter are imited h a ao ofepl ru able tovisi hse hou -- are unable tovisit those hours. thisame a y igiueae hardor hahs francis, as ap to increaseccess. but w that we have thousan ofeople who arein aly san ancisco, tre's sll a lot ofhem at cn't access the system caue here haveen new faiities or seices create we feellike the eah care acces ts sue vey
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impoant d is is a ece of legislation thatn actuallyreate compreheive i ink the e loof forces a play e an i jus the isu that fols have ought here r our mbers andchnese cmunity and i would say in yourown isti a primary issue with thnaonal rorms at re comi in san fransco. we need o be eadyad prepared ableto adress coernsha areomng and sial addresw 're ing to rly havewayo vete health care access for ever. thank you. esidchiu: k you ve much. xt >>inda capan. caot te you o pp i mpos a co-sponsor we've benresponding fom eighbors ani mysef rerding the e.i.r. on the campuseso ocaed narus
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a huge,intense use. andeaking for lower ighborhoodswe've been talking iththehospital. aps the lle a wi-wi solutione end but we do have real concernsabut what ey've prosed in terms of ge traffic pctsfor examndther pcs ournihoood. sincet's ilwon progress, i'm goinpeak fomyself and on beaf of he pl. famili with hat. omwh it was writtenaybe 25 years ago and what yusee he deloent one as en followi ievr snce it is an eegant plan or develong housig, fo develong an attrave bould,n importa boulevd,nd foraking sure aty do' eaerte affic impacts too much. now, wa appens? e atheral hillis in violation of almos every licy
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anyway. os--ehave to e ableto to a lage extntseissues even if we're going to ind of leap off tcliff dsay, k, an institutionause will e ther hee thecity poliy saysonly housiwil be, ad mod ral commercial use, so it's notoretemoeaic imctanhe ting hat i living near ther is the hoibn, t fat that o day lastwit wh it rained it took me wo hous to catch e 49 a pieand get ovo the missioere i s doing my tuorig a 2n street. now imine peop needing heal ce andhehospital says they wan tlocae here becausit's so important, when people ae - [naudible] imagine tryi t deal with that a get helhca president ch: ank you very ch neakr please. >> hell supersors nato. i'd keo thk supe1 nato. i'like to thank supeisor compose for youreadersp on
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is and a of you r your -- campos analf you foryour isqu ioints peoplen fox news upet. thisoeback to rogams that we had iplace 20 an 3 yeas ago with t weayeath systems agencylots of communities alloer he country are using the ad use ocess in diffeent orms, to promo access toealh care. is is one ersion that works fo oiurie x t it'sonsiste with a lot of tt work tt's happened all overthecountry
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>> if we look at ou sitals in sanfncisco, stluk'sis 100 year's old. chidren's hospital is years old. whene pnning forealh careit's a reay imptant kind of planning. and if there are facilits that ao ovg rhe next 10years, so i's important toave thbest infrmatn we can to do this
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i n't hinkt's enoughfor op simptake this undeadce the. has to bsome tthn it someegulory coliance for the cityf san anciscoand for the developers on how alth care is disributed. right nowi can alk to seven hospitals. peonally in san francisco. buif crossarket, the's hospitals. persally in san francisco. but if i cross market, there's onlywo hospita. san cisco generaanst. luke's ich is going to roposed to be significany dowsize that'so an eqitble dstribution of health care. and a loof ourspakes ae speakiabout t shortage of
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althare in the southeastern ighborhoods. we t impacofreatinga hethare[naudie] ne seaker,-- idenchiuthanyou. next speakerplease. good afteoon, spisors. n itof t hosal t we want toappau supersor camps forthe whole ncepof ahat servic -- healthare seice master plan. what we would like to propose tosuerisor andiwold veo meetit you tomorrow ing ors soon as you can, is tatwfoow the suggestio othe planning commission and te het commissi, that t healt commissioeseplannin the anning commiioes thla use, that there is a requed deteminatioprocess legilation,e're ppo athat contie. of crse e ard of supso have final decisio over both e anig adthe alare. meet with at you ve
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earlier coeniee to look at at pla do ihink the'segal way to presdt chiui k at we haveeen --ourdoorhas een open frothe very beginning and we have madeet nuber of times -- wehametam o times. ife ven't met it's bcause yovet sought tomeet. we didn'tcome up.igt. we didn'realize ow his could be done until ve recent and is our ul, not yous. please. iu: speake, >> good eveg, suevisrs b blacwisa anchamof commee. we doeieve tha there is a role in regars toanigo in regar to okiga a gap analysisf where e eeto incentivize fure growth r seices uehca counity inan fisco-- he health ca comnityn sanfrcisco. hower,e veery strong reseations about doing tha in argimenedanng
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structure. weelieve, especiay givn that we havejut seen this ar a ramaticiece f legislation thahas come througthe itedtates in foing our altre stem toomethi tte in stone, even historalin proceduresways ofdeliering services,hat wil becanged d that we will be sckin a plan that s treeyes t ate o wait togoback to liveries oservices will change dramatica doctos ll be robaly oing intohe. ll be a whol ewstrucu abouhow mecaic are provd,hich is pla will beoued eforeit een gets ar e have oncns about that. ifou look a hat as a ga analysise n't inthat wi be the sacase ere are rolesan we've heard some tonigt. cess, cultural access, those sos of things are imorant.
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seo geogrphyost likeeah servicesilno be delivered rimily arou geogray, eseciallfor specltservic we've do a very good job o using clinics in sa francisco and we shoulntinue to do that and buildhat ou t for secalty services th's roaly not goig be the del. it ao esn't look as regional car. san francio is aecomic industryd thmedical we beoe -- pple come reedicalervices. al those issues.ealinth so we would lovetat thisgt time to discuss shoo wit you. president chiuthank yo --isssssueswihyou. president ch: thank you. ne speaker, please we ahavradyan abby who woulli to eake pulic rrcrowl
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i'm as redao ae, sitting here all aftenoon. and -- howeve i'm representing the neighood nework and reyouack othee year go, i think you wouldremember wh tre was an appeal at the in an institution andsm plansi the triangle area. the boa of superisors set the institution bcko velop an instutionalmaser pan which in as sat her this afternoon thinkingaou health care sices, i thught, why e
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we havegreat respect for yr adership. thankyou. nt spker ease. >> i am reo say kaiser peanent stasupp anngor hethare. kaiser permanente is opposed to this as it was written.
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to hlth ca, caungelays.s sanraco is aredy of thetop citi to uil a hosital and it cou limitthe abily to continue providi services to resid iluding tose in healthy san fcis eetermina from pnning partment would place an undue weight onh sh- carevis and r quality act aentrom
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northerifni dicaiceya e alpyi jse ouldnoife lerolicenters. > have neatob at hospitals. ince you do understand the poance of wt w a ayingave you iguredout -- are there ings wean do?
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understa we do not drsan a we not ha c view i we ave aan, it is cl to navigate the. we havtounderanhow t bring e eshealthare. > e are defiitelin support of png. go>>we doot havaot otime. ehave tngs soecan get rsndow it is n.
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thatreqresplanni wou get in the way f l te ings you talked abt. ve had speficchanges you have incorpoaedhrough e hospitalcouncil? we have been geing feedback from them, and we e noseen anytngcific wasnot incded > there is some aerive pagein all is. th y for youreship. th y for youreship. ihinkwhat we're yi ihinkwhat we're yi