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Follow-up to Key element of SF's landmark health insurance law struck down
1 posted on 12/27/2007 1:23:25 PM PST by SmithL
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White, Jeffrey Steven
Born 1945 in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California
Nominated by George W. Bush on July 25, 2002, to a seat vacated by Charles E. Legge; Confirmed by the Senate on November 14, 2002, and received commission on November 15, 2002.

Education:
Queens College of City University of New York, B.A., 1967

State University of New York, J.D., 1970

Professional Career:
Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1970-1971
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Maryland, 1971-1977
Attorney, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1977-1978
Private practice, San Francisco, California, 1978-2002

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

2 posted on 12/27/2007 1:24:14 PM PST by SmithL (Fred!)
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To: SmithL

Well, I want another Ferrari and I can’t pay for it so SF had better start making the engines of economic success in this country - small buinesses - pay for it, and pay for it right now. - I have a great deal lined up at only 642k.


3 posted on 12/27/2007 1:27:20 PM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: SmithL

I very grateful for San Francisco, showing those less enlightened souls how truly screwed up the left is. What will they do when you can’t buy health care coverage in the city at any cost because the carriers don’t want to go broke? Or is the city already self-insured?


4 posted on 12/27/2007 1:35:45 PM PST by Spok
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To: SmithL
I actually have no problems with SF mandating that companies and non-profits are required to provide health benefits to employees.

I also don’t have a problem with businesses relocating outside of SF or choosing to reduce their employees number to below the 20 stipulated in the regulation.

The City idiots can regulate what it takes to have a business license within their city. And businesses have the right to move away if they don’t like the taxes, the services, or the additional expenditures the city requires. It does not have to be health insurance either. similar regulations exist for garbage collection, inspections, signage etc. If you are a business owner and don’t like SF’s restrictive business environment .... MOVE.

Sooner or later, the City will loose enough businesses that it will become a blighted city where there are no jobs and there is not enough money to pay for services. Then property values go down, people move away, and the libs will once again destroy another city. And it will either remain that way for a long time limping along in it's pity me state, being the but of many a joke, or some real fiscal conservative will come in, clean things up, and reestablish sound fiscal spending and other ordnances to encourage businesses to return.

Nothing new here, it is all on "the wheel" and has been done before and will be done once again because the libs never learn their from history.

5 posted on 12/27/2007 1:41:19 PM PST by taxcontrol
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Watch this one. The district court judge just held that a 20-25 year-old federal law (I think it is ERISA) prohibits states as well as local governments from taxing employers to pay for health care for the employer’s own employees. That would shoot down the Governator’s proposed statewide plan.


6 posted on 12/27/2007 1:52:32 PM PST by Thud (q)
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To: SmithL
$200 million-a-year for the 73,000 uninsured adult city residents

$228/month ... sounds a little fishy - are the uninsured residents all healthy 18-year old males?

Wonder what the real cost will be?

7 posted on 12/27/2007 2:18:26 PM PST by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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9 posted on 12/27/2007 2:45:20 PM PST by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: SmithL
They can't do it. ERISA says flatly an employer mandate is illegal. San Francisco cannot pursue its program unless it gets a Congressional waiver.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

13 posted on 12/28/2007 12:06:31 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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