The city of San Francisco is now getting into the act of providing health care to the uninsured. The new program, Healthy San Francisco, provides a decent set of benefits, including coverage for preventative care, hospitalizations, and prescription drugs. It’s a novel approach, but I doubt it could be easily replicated in other cities. San Francisco has a strong tax base, a wealth of medical providers, and a population that already has a high degree of health care coverage. Places like Oklahoma City and Biloxi don’t have the same resources available to them. But it’s another example of states and municipalities implementing creative stopgap measures to the health care dilemma while waiting for a paralyzed Congress to come up with a more lasting solution.
