Vetoes Allow Profits to Trump Patient Care, Family Physicians Say (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN FRANCISCO----Family physicians today said Californians' health care is seriously compromised by Governor Schwarzenegger's veto of a bill that would have mandated more money spent on health care and another that would have made it more difficult for health plans and insurers to refuse to pay for care.
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Socialized Medicine Gets Court Approval in San Francisco - The New American
Socialized Medicine Gets Court Approval in San Francisco The New American - 1 hour ago "It is illegal for individual municipalities to mandate that employers pay for health insurance ," Westlye said. " Health care is everyone's responsibility, ...
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Massachusetts to San Francisco - Galen Institute
dBTechno Massachusetts to San Francisco Galen Institute, VA - 21 hours ago San Francisco passed a law in 2006 that requires most employers to provide health insurance to their workers or pay into a government fund. ... Vice Presidential Debate Includes References to Health Care Kaiser network.org Elizabeth Edwards Links Current Economic Downturn With Problems in ... Kaiser network.org all 404 news articles
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Appeals court OKs San Francisco health mandate (Business Insurance)
SAN FRANCISCO—The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling last week that San Francisco's health care spending mandate is not pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act could set the stage for Supreme Court review and perhaps finally resolve the legality of employer mandates.
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