734 businesses sign up for San Francisco's Health Program (employment, illegal, health care)

[18Montclair]

Coming together quite nicely.

Every participant in Healthy San Francisco is assigned to a primary-care facility at a health-care center or clinic that stresses preventive care, and enrollees also have access to urgent care, emergency care, mental health care, substance abuse services, radiology, pharmaceuticals and other medical services.
More high-level medical care, such as surgery, is offered at San Francisco General Hospital.
To qualify, an individual must be an adult (children are already covered in San Francisco through another program), uninsured, live in the city and be ineligible for Medicaid or Medi-Cal. It is not called an insurance program because medical care is only available within the city limits.
Employment status, immigration status and pre-existing medical conditions are not factors in coverage. People who do not meet the program's requirements are eligible for the health-reimbursement accounts, employer-funded accounts that reimburse employees' medical costs. City officials will contact employees of the businesses and tell them what they are eligible for and how to receive it.
For San Franciscans not working for one of these businesses, the Healthy San Francisco program is open to those making up to three times the federal poverty line, or about $31,000 for a single adult. The city plans to eventually eliminate that limit, but has not set a date to do so.

734 businesses sign up for S.F. health program

[Valkyr47]

wait, employment status and immigration status are not factors in coverage?

so those without a job and illegal immigrants can get medical care?

RIDICULOUS

[camping!]

How long before this program is bankrupted? If they can make it work, good for them but I foresee nothing but beurocratic red tape and abuse of the system.