[xcamel]

Apparently, nobody asked the Canadians how that's all working out for them...

[hsalaw]

"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.

[Uncle Vlad]

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.

[sionnsar]

Financial bankruptcy often soon follows moral bankruptcy.

[Dog Gone]

San Francisco doesn't want any military presence in town, and apparently they don't want any capitalistic businesses there, either.

[MarkeyD]

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?

[darkwing104]

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.

[BIGZ]

How soon will SF be out of business. Again the liberals have failed economics 101.

Another Federal government bailout?

[Coyoteman]

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

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

More madness from the second most psychotic city in the country...

[Dog Gone]

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?

[bybybill]

Notice that SF didn`t do anything to limit lawyers fees. Want to reduce health care cost, shoot a lawyer.

[Gay State Conservative]

Oh,this should be fun to watch.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Financed by local government

Do they still get to bill federally for Medicaid?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I'm sure that sex change operations, AIDS treatment, STD treatment, and fist-induced hemmhoroids are also covered.

No need to wait six months for SF to go bankrupt!

[45Auto]

Newsom defended the proposal as a creative solution to the problem of securing decent health care for uninsured residents,

These psychopaths are really over the edge. What this means is, that every rotten, disease-ridden, mentally deranged, drug infested bum that stumbles into town will now be taken care of in grand style by the already overly taxed business interests in this once nice, but now rotten, city. The only silver lining is that the rest of California will now be able to watch the bumbling morons (like Ammiano) run San Francisco into the bankruptcy courts. I pity the over-worked medical personnel in San Francisco General. I predict the place will go belly up within two years.

[SmithL]

Oh boy! Free Drugs in San Francisco!

[A CA Guy]

Wow, with all the AIDS and homeless indigent people there, this is going to break their backs. :-)

[Dog Gone]

the estimated annual price tag of $200 million,

Who wants to be the first to point out how ridiculously low that number is?

Got horrendous medical bills? Are you an illegal alien? Get free medical care in San Francisco, not just Emergency Room care.

Heck, I guess I'm glad they're doing this. We need to get the word out on the street of our local towns and cities that there's a free lunch in San Francisco.

Skeedaddle boys!

[Chode]

and when 10,000 sick people all move there for the free medical... then what???