{"id":1695,"date":"2007-09-15T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2007-09-15T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T15:22:34","slug":"act_local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Act Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of San Francisco is now getting into the act of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/14\/us\/14health.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ei=5087%0A&amp;em&amp;en=c97156109f1a3822&amp;ex=1189915200\">providing health care to the uninsured<\/a>. The new program, Healthy San Francisco, provides a decent set of benefits, including coverage for preventative care, hospitalizations, and prescription drugs. It&#8217;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&#8217;t have the same resources available to them. But it&#8217;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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a novel approach, but I doubt it could be easily replicated in other cities. San <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1695' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-rl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}