San Francisco's universal health care plan eyed as model for California – The Mercury News
Share this: | UPDATED: April 3, 2017 at 7:32 am SAN FRANCISCO — Maria Consuelo believes she's alive today because of a groundbreaking program this left-leaning city created a decade ago – one that guarantees health coverage to every one of its 864,000 residents. It's made San Francisco the only place in the country where truly universal health coverage exists, similar to what's available in every other developed nation. Called Healthy San Francisco, it offers health care to those who can't afford private insurance and are ineligible for other government health programs. In Consuelo's case, she visited a government-funded clinic in the fall of 2015 and told a doctor she had pain in her pelvis. Tests later showed cancer in her ovaries, leading to successful surgery to remove them in January 2016. "This law really helped me," Consuelo, a 55-year-old mother of five grown children, said while waiting to pick up some medication last week at San Francisco General Hospital.Read full article from San Francisco's universal health care plan eyed as model for California – The Mercury News
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