Healthy San Francisco, City's Universal Health Plan, Rests On Unstable Funding (insurance, income)

[french paris]

Four years ago, San Francisco launched a grand experiment, becoming the first city in the nation to offer comprehensive health care to its growing ranks of uninsured.

Healthy San Francisco, City's Universal Health Plan, Rests On Unstable Funding

[mayorhaggar]

It's a great program and one of the few good things Newsom ever accomplished. It's not insurance so much as a better organized way of providing access to health services for low-income people that already existed, like SF General Hospital.

But I've never understood how the fees that restaurants charge go to it, when you'd have to assume that most workers at a restaurant in SF don't live in SF and wouldn't be eligible for this plan. But the restaurants always tack on a flat rate to pay for it.

[Boompa]

Originally Posted by french paris

Four years ago, San Francisco launched a grand experiment, becoming the first city in the nation to offer comprehensive health care to its growing ranks of uninsured.

Healthy San Francisco, City's Universal Health Plan, Rests On Unstable Funding

As compared to leaving them uninsured

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by Boompa

As compared to leaving them uninsured

HSF does leave them uninsured - it is not insurance. It is a bare-bones, means-tested medical care delivery system. If you need more care than the system provides, you will get a bill for it.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by mayorhaggar

It's a great program and one of the few good things Newsom ever accomplished.

I totally agree. It is a great program and its one of the few good things that Newsom accomplished.

[rkwalton]

It's better than nothing and nothing, when it comes to health care, is what a lot of Americans have.