San Francisco: Mecca For Homosexuals, Subversives, Indigents, And Illegals
Did we leave anyone out? We’re equal-opportunity.
AP reports: “San Francisco moved closer Tuesday to becoming the nation’s first city to provide health care coverage for all its residents.”
“First city” for gay marriage. Now this.
“The city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan that would give adults access to medical services regardless of immigration or employment status. The plan’s estimated cost is $200 million a year.”
Financed by local government, mandatory contributions from employers and income-adjusted premiums, the universal care plan would cover the cost of everything from checkups, prescription drugs and X-rays to ambulance rides, blood tests and operations.
Unlike health insurance, it would not pay for services obtained outside San Francisco. Participants would have to receive care at existing clinics and public hospitals and from doctors who already participate in an HMO for low- and middle-income clients.
The Board of Supervisors must vote on the plan, which has been strongly opposed by the business community, once more for it to become final.
Businesses with more than 50 employees would have to start participating next July, while smaller enterprises would begin in April 2008.
San Francisco: Not just hostile to military. Business, too.
In other news…
“About 100 illegal immigrants were rescued from the desert about 50 miles west of Phoenix, many suffering from dehydration and exhaustion after triple-digit heat.”
AP has that story, too.
If only S.F. were already offering free healthcare, you know where they’d all be headed — and Arizona might’ve even bought them one-way bus tickets.
RELATED:
S.F. Unveils Universal Health Care Plan:
Illegal Immigrants Should Apply Early
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom: Vows to Ignore The Law, Again
Technorati Tags: San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, Healthcare, Illegal Immigrants, Liberals
July 20th, 2006 at 5:32 am
Au contraire. SF believes business should pay for the true cost of its “cheap” and illegal labor.
(SF’s penchant for street people is legendary and a great tourist attraction)
Without border enforcement, we will have 4000 different solutions to the problem of “cheap” illegal labor. While the cheap labor remits its disposable income to Mexico and points south.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:07 am
Utah’s next
California Conservative had this post this morning, i thought it was very interesting. …
July 20th, 2006 at 11:54 am
So how illegal immigrants in the Arizona desert relate to San Francisco’s health-care proposal, I can’t see, but I suppose they’ll all head to SF for a checkup (according to CalCon). There’s only a couple of hitches that you fail to report.
First, the plan okayed by the Supes is for city residents only, and only covers treatment in the city. It is not like health insurance where you can get covereage anywhere (on vacation, for instance). So, an illegal immigrant would have to provide some sort of proof of residence in the city, which given SF’s penchant for easily obtained and acceptable forms of proof, won’t be too hard. On the other hand, how many illegal immigrants are going to show up and say they don’t have a drivers’ license or other government-issued ID, but want coverage? In the current climate, they’re probably too afraid to come forward, annyway.
Second, if the business is already covering their employee’s health insurance in excess of the proposed $1.06 to $1.60 per hour tax, they’re exempt. This net has plenty of holes. For example, the likes of Starbucks and Home Depot already offers all of its employees coverage. And let’s face it, if you work at Starbucks or Home Depot, you probably can’t afford to live in SF. What businesses will this hurt? Small, few-employee businesses, like restaurants (who, coincidentally, CalCon spent days pillorying for “giving in” to the immigrant day of protest); large hotel chains (who cleans the rooms at the Hilton again?); and retailers (como Macy’s y Costco, no?). (And I’m not even going to mention the retail whore Wal-Mart.)
The estimates are that there are about 82,000 uninsured residents of the city that this plan will cover. Where do you think these people go when they’re sick? Where should they go? How much are we already paying in inflated health care costs in order for the people to show up in the emergency room for healthcare?
Study after study has shown that preventative care costs less than emergency care, only preventative care isn’t available in the ER. And is there an insurance company out there who will treat somebody prophylactically out of the goodness of their heart?
We’re not talking about plastic surgery, eye glasses, dental care, sex-change operations… so called “luxury” care.
Let’s look at our neighbors to the north. Canadians’ life-expectancy is two years longer than ours, infant mortality is 35% less than ours, administrative costs are 9% compared to our 30%, and their overall costs are 40% less than our even though they cover 100% of their population compared to our 85%. Over 15% of our GDP compared to their 10%.
Why is it that more big-three autos are manufacturered in Ontario compared to Detroit? Hint: health care in Ontario costs GM $800 per employee per year compared to $6500 in Michigan.
This is an opportunity for health care providers, business, and insurers to create a plan that works. Ever heard the saying “as California goes, so goes the nation?” Instead of criticizing the plan, how about working with it to see if we, being Californians, can create a system that will spread across the country?
Or, we can wait until the system collapses, and the government has to step in and take over health care. Do any of my fellow boomers hear the clock ticking?
July 20th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Am i missing something here. What is wrong with free health care for all. you have just posted that it is wrong. With out saying why.
July 20th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
You’re right! Universal health care for all is a wicked, and terrible idea!!! We must protect the sanctity of paralysis and disease!
I’d like to see you tell a gay person to his face some of the things you write on this blog.
July 20th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Illegal immigrants in the Arizona desert relate to San Francisco’s health-care proposal because the latter will provide an incentive to the former, as well as illegal immigrants anywhere in the country, to become residents in The Shitty.
July 20th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Another brainiac joins the fray! Erik, what, exactly, will draw the illegals to SF? Would it be the high cost of living, or is it the great benefits of living here, including the already free healthcare to the homeless? Oh wait, the homeless population has plummeted due to Newsom’s Care Not Cash program, showing that SF seems to know how to do something right…
Such programs are counterintuitive. But in the long run, they save money, resulting in higher profits for business. You’d think the theoCONs would like universal healthcare, helping all embryos grow into human beings. But then again, that would mean spending a few bucks on somebody other than yourself. Besides, the theoCONs don’t give a hoot about you once you’re out of the womb.
It’s obvious you don’t live here in the city. Let’s keep it that way.
July 20th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
No, I live in Oaktown. I didn’t say free healthcare “will draw” illegals, I said it will provide “an incentive” to illegals “to become residents in The Shitty.”
July 22nd, 2006 at 7:56 am
Every right blog has its troll. Stop Bush! is ours. He/she is so pathetic that even this slight acknowledgement will be lapped up like desperately craved recognition.
The underlying point of this post is SF’s attractiveness to moonbats. Stop Bush! kindly serves as example.
The aspect about socialized healthcare - which has been discussed in other posts - is secondary to the fact that Mayor Newsom and the Stupes are showing blatant en flagrante disregard for the laws by rewarding illegal aliens at taxpayer’s expense.
Finally, if there’s any doubt that offering something for free is an incentive for people to take advantage of it, maybe we should charge for the next troll to comment. That might reduce the waste.
July 22nd, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Can you say Soddom and Gohmorra?
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