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.

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.

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?

California Conservative had this post this morning, i thought it was very interesting. …

(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.