California Conservative

via S.F. Business Times: SPECIAL SURVEY

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has set up a committee to recommend how the city can fund health coverage for uninsured city residents. The committee has discussed a plan that would cost about $200 per person for the estimated 82,000 San Franciscans who don’t have health coverage through work or elsewhere. The idea is to call on employers as well as workers, health-care providers and the city to pay for the coverage.

Do you favor taxing businesses and others to fund health care for uninsured San Francisco residents?

Answer here: Si? or No?

AP reports: “The city would offer health care to any adult resident, regardless of immigration or employment status, under a plan announced [last] Tuesday.”

Knowing how Gavin Newsom feels about illegal immigrants, there’s really no surprise. Squandering others’ money and promoting subversive politics is just another day at City Hall in San Francisco.

The plan, which still needs be approved by the city’s Board of Supervisors, is aimed at 82,000 uninsured residents who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, said Mayor Gavin Newsom. San Francisco already provides universal health care for children.

“Rather than lamenting about the fact that we live in a country with 45.8 million Americans that don’t have health insurance … San Francisco is doing something about it,” Newsom said. “San Francisco is moving forward to fulfill its moral obligation.”

Translation: More taxes on those who are already being taxed.

“The city estimates the plan would cost $200 million a year, an expense that would be borne by taxpayers, businesses that don’t already insure all their workers, and participants themselves.
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