Gavin Gets It!
We are still the first and only city in America on its way to universal health care. Our Healthy San Francisco program has already enrolled nearly 30,000 previously uninsured San Franciscans into a comprehensive health access program. While the state and nation falter on health care - San Francisco is showing the way.But there's more. In my opinion, the most radical aspect of this program is that it provides health care, not health insurance. In other words, our public health service in San Francisco funds the providers directly. No middlemen! Brilliant! |
Dan Keller's Nursing, Health Policy & Healthcare Technology Blog
Nursing Informatics · Clinical Perspectives · Healthcare Systems
"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798