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Thanks for the information. I MISSED this but humbly apologize for my error...and to the Sacbee. Though they somehow missed telling the facts that even they would know. Oh well, I don't blame them for the chance at making Mayor Know-Nothing Newsome look stupid, again.

Every San Franciscan without health insurance could see a regular doctor, get prescription drugs and have advanced medical procedures under a skeleton plan unveiled by Mayor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday.
The universal health care access plan is not traditional health insurance, but would allow some 85,000 to 150,000 uninsured city residents to receive a defined set of routine health care benefits through an as-yet-undetermined fee paid for by the patient, employers and the city government.

The "universal" wouldn't be, of course, UNIVERSAL, since it wouldn't include me, or the OTHER 700,000 citizens who DO have health care.

It wouldn't be UNIVERSAL, either, for those who already have the UNIVERSAL health care that welfare provides: ALL medical (even infertility problems), ALL prescriptions, ALL psychiatric (and that's a biggie), ALL dental, ALL emergencies (done at very posh hospitals, in fact, not merely at the S. F. General Hospital, which, btw, leads the country in many aspects of health care...you guessed it, HIV/AIDS treatment) and ALL short-long-medium care problems.

The question is for our moron mayor -- Who needs universal health coverage besides the drunks and drug addicts who WON'T use the health coverage unless they PASS OUT on the street? His numbers are totally wrong. Even the nonprofits and homeless advocates cite smaller numbers. Wow, he's jackin' the stats. What a SHOCK.
Hmmmm.

But the Sacbee was correct, "universal" health coverage WAS proposed.
What a moron is our mayor. He KNOWS the facts, he's just jacking up the VOTER-stupids in the city who don't know the facts.

Ammiano’s plan, which has drawn fire from businesses and the mayor, would require employers with 20 or more employees to provide health benefits to employees who work 80 or more hours a month. The proposal would cost about $375 a month per employee.

Oh, this is so going to encourage business to establish -- or stay -- in SF (not)!