Universal Health Care For San Francisco
From today’s Onion:
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently passed a measure to make free health care available to all of the city’s uninsured. What do you think?
Henry Gaven, Historian
“First they make a mockery of my bitter, loveless marriage, now they make a mockery of my restrictive overpriced health care. Is nothing sacred to these monsters?”
It does seem a little absurd that the supes still think the majority of San Franciscans are socialists. Are we?
Full Onion story here.
More info on the County Measure here
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does universal health care necessarily = socialsm?
I guess what I mean is Social Democrats? Another thought, Universal Health Care managed by any government would be a boon to the industry. Remember $2000 toilet seats?
Medicare runs with about 3% overhead while our private industry runs about 20%. What if we cut out all those insurance company middle managers and weekend junkets to the exclusize resorts for drugs sales people.
We the people can do it better. We may not get it right the first time, but are we really saying that Switzerland, Canada, France, etc… can make it work, but us Americans are too dumb to figure it out.
SF is still very left leaning, universal healthcare supporting, and full of social-anarcho-libertarian types. Just seems to me like this blog is written by and for the un-social, suburbanized Silicon Valley-ite and their puke-oid urban (yuppie) manifestation that has destroyed so much of SFs authentic culture to make room for box-store condos and crepes for the uber-uncultured, loafer wearing goons who would be happy to see SF turned into a disney-fied mall with an urban theme. You ask your question as if the Supes hadn’t been elected by San Franciscans. Get out of the “business” and “internet start up” crowds a bit (hell, read the Guardian) and you’ll see your question is absurd.
More to the point though, 30 percent of the city is UNINSURED! The techno-rich have been driving out the people who have made this city worth living in for a decade now and this is going to allow some of those people (and poor people in general)to consider staying here. Sure, one can move to Oakland or L.A. for lower rent, but now SF is offering an insentive for regular people to stick it out here and I think that is part of the point of this legislation.