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Why San Francisco’s Socialized Free Health Care is a Success
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by TheCameraObscura | July 26, 2009 at 03:47 pm
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In the past few weeks, Republicans have claimed that universal healthcare will "kill people" and "kill babies."
Meanwhile, in the real world, universal health care has provided top notch medical care to the uninsured in the city of San Francisco.
Two years ago, the city of San Francisco launched the country’s first universal health care program, Healthy San Francisco. Today, almost 75% of previously uninsured residents are enrolled in the “public option” program. 44,249 people, at last count are now covered by the public plan. For many people, abandoned by corporate health care, this universal healthcare program has been a lifesaver.
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at 16:57 on July 26th, 2009
Local OK.. National control- not OK. And it is not the republicans but the blue-dog democrats who are fiscally conservative.
Republicans cannot kill this bill. Blue-dog democrats can and maybe will.
Source: blogs.abcnews.com
at 18:49 on July 26th, 2009
at 08:07 on July 27th, 2009
So Roy, are you on the record as supporting socialized healthcare as long the local government controls it?
Like the greedy Republicans, the Blue Dogs get tons of donations from the health industry, they need to be voted out and replaced with real Democrats.