Remarks by Kenneth Bernstein
39 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 17:40
“Can you go back to the first slide showing if you participated in your baseline? There were three different columns that you had. Can you go back to that first slide?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 18:06
“The one that had the three comparisons that said if you were out of network. That one. So with the out of network, potentially you could be $10,000 a person. Is that what I'm seeing is the exposure that somebody has $10,000 for each family member?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“And is it like I've seen issues where we're getting somebody in network might take several months or much longer than is normal. Is there something like if it takes somebody five months or four months to schedule something where you give them a break on the out of network where they If they can't find somebody in network, I've seen that happen often. I'm just concerned about that.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 47:15
“A couple questions. Sure. Following the onus of putting the onus on the patient to get in all the bills, which I find daunting sometimes just looking at where I've been, much less go through and say, okay, I went to this doctor and he did this, this, and this, and if I miss something, I'm not sure that's handled, but is it possible or... When you go to the doctor's office, you can say that I'm in sidecar. Can you put in the paperwork for you? Or that's not a possibility?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 48:56
“Second question with regards to you showed a flat rate. Does that flat rate kind of change with the different type of doctors? that maybe a dermatologist might be $150, a cardiologist might be...”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 49:28
“The example you gave of seeing a hip replacement, It cut it off before the physical therapy. Is physical therapy something that's also included with you? Correct.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 49:58
“So if a doctor says you need 20 or you need 10 visits to a PT and then you go back to him and he says you need another 10, is that automatically approved?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 50:36
“And one last question. Sure. Just with preventive medicine going forward, and I think a lot of people with Outlive and these different books that are out there that everyone is looking for wellness, is something like the... Like the cancer one that was just suggested in the last scenario, are those type of, like if you just want to go get a cancer screening, is that something that you could just say, hey, I want to do this? Or is this something you would need to go to a doctor?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Gotcha. And my last question. You were kind of saying what wasn't covered at a certain point like in terms of you were saying some exclusions, right? So things like so like things that like were path it was something a Few years ago that I never heard out. That's kind of an alternative to statins But just two three years ago. I was hearing that that's really far out Is that something is those type of medications come out or those always included or is that something?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 52:24
“I just mean, they're just, they're just, they're kind of cutting edge stuff, like rapamycin type of. R-E-P what?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 52:42
“But these are more like cutting-edge medicines that are just coming out.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:00:34
“Well, I think maybe we could pay the beach personnel who are there.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Do a pull-up America. We'll pull it from now. But just, I think the point being just a little bit nicer than what we normally do, just 250th anniversary. You bring up a good point.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“We might be. I will be. They're doing real big things in longevity medicine. We'll spruce it up a little bit more.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:08:11
“Wasabi probably would be OK with that. He's a little caliente. Spicy. Sure. I want to say first thank the town and Fabian. What an amazing, amazing event. for the Golden Knights, a thrill of my lifetime. And being there with Judy after all these years, I can't believe something could bring us so much closer in just a few hours. But it was really an incredible thing. It was surprising to me to see how many people in the town were down there cheering us on, greeting us, and really marveled at the Golden Knights and their precision of how well they landed and how orchestrated was and especially…”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:24:47
“I'm just so used to having whatever we're proving up on I'm sorry This is the clerk's not here today. So we don't have that. This is the face sheet of this is your financial statement Okay approved”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“By the way, isn't this very objective, easy to get information? I mean, I know it's each individual house.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:35:31
“It should be able to say each one of them says what's homesteaded. It says homesteaded right there.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:35:38
“It doesn't say if it's homesteaded. If you go to the Dade County...”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“I do, and Alex, if you already kind of said it, then I'm sorry. No, you have very valid points. But one of the kinds of, well, I'm very excited to see this, and we've always been trying to push it down. We just have a lot of things going on, just a lot of different projects, and we haven't sat down to see what CIP projects we want to push. And I would like to just caveat this with the abilities is we're going to be meeting in the next few months to go over that Alex basically gets the new projects that we want to do and that we look at that and make sure we have enough money for those and…”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“Can I ask this then? If we have the ability over the next few months to reduce it, We have the ability to reduce it. What is the urgency to do it right now versus to wait till we have the numbers?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
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“And in our policy of keeping three million dollars, there's not a policy. It's my policy. Yes. I'm saying your policy of keeping three million dollars. Does that are you OK to move that down a little?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:43:38
“And I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it's if the general restricted the unrestricted was like 2.8 So right now an unrestricted general fund balance cash on hand.”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:44:40
“Let me ask you, in the event of a hurricane,”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026
- Play at 1:45:11
“And after that, then we don't have to. FEMA writes the checks or what? Don't we have to wait for FEMA approval?”
Town Council · Jun 9, 2026