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Universal health care plan approved in San Francisco
ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 7/18/06 | Lisa Leff - ap

Posted on 07/18/2006 5:47:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 07/18/2006 5:47:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Apparently, nobody asked the Canadians how that's all working out for them...


2 posted on 07/18/2006 5:49:59 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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"This is a moral debate as much as a political debate," Newsom said.

These people are so incredibly stupid. Businesses have been leaving SF in droves for years - going to Walnut Creek or the South Bay - and this will just increase the flight of actual tax-paying entities. There's no free lunch.

3 posted on 07/18/2006 5:50:26 PM PDT by hsalaw
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Watch the cost of healthcare in San Francisco skyrocket, the quality and availability plummet, and the number of small businesses in the area start to close.
4 posted on 07/18/2006 5:50:47 PM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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Financial bankruptcy often soon follows moral bankruptcy.


5 posted on 07/18/2006 5:51:22 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d, N0t Y0urs | NYT:Jihadi Journal)
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See what happens when you put liberals in charge of things? Bad things, mad--bad things!
6 posted on 07/18/2006 5:51:41 PM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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San Francisco doesn't want any military presence in town, and apparently they don't want any capitalistic businesses there, either.


7 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:19 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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So now all poor and unemployed sick people should just go to San Fran. So how long before this plan run in the red?

6 months?
8 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:19 PM PDT by MarkeyD (The patriotism of the New York Times = The humanity of an Islamic terrorist.)
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This thing sounds more like Fidel Castro's "barefoot doctor" plan.


9 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:26 PM PDT by muawiyah (-/sarcasm)
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Let see what happens after the migration of Business and Doctors from San Francisco...Maybe Castro could send some of his Doctors to help out.


10 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:33 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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How soon will SF be out of business. Again the liberals have failed economics 101.

Another Federal government bailout?

11 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:45 PM PDT by BIGZ
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For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death...

Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, 1987


12 posted on 07/18/2006 5:52:58 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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More madness from the second most psychotic city in the country...


13 posted on 07/18/2006 5:53:21 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: muawiyah

Yup... that too.


14 posted on 07/18/2006 5:53:50 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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Before the board vote, Newsom defended the proposal as a creative solution to the problem of securing decent health care for uninsured residents, noting that businesses would not be alone in defraying the costs. Of the $200 million, the city would provide $104 million and participants would contribute about $56 million.

And this is good thinking, because the city gets its money from WHERE?

15 posted on 07/18/2006 5:53:55 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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Notice that SF didn`t do anything to limit lawyers fees. Want to reduce health care cost, shoot a lawyer.
16 posted on 07/18/2006 5:54:01 PM PDT by bybybill (`IF THE RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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Financial bankruptcy often soon follows moral bankruptcy.

DING DING DING DING DING!! We have a winner!!!

They have already chased a lot of businesses away with their "attack panhandler" laws. Now they will have to pay a very hungry, greedy, needy piper.

17 posted on 07/18/2006 5:54:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (A Conservative will die for individual freedom. A Liberal will kill you for the good of society.)
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Want to reduce health care cost, shoot a lawyer.

Just don't shoot for the heart -- nothing there to hit.

18 posted on 07/18/2006 5:55:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (A Conservative will die for individual freedom. A Liberal will kill you for the good of society.)
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To: xcamel

Bankruptcy soon on the horizon for San Fran.


19 posted on 07/18/2006 5:55:50 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh,this should be fun to watch.


20 posted on 07/18/2006 5:56:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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