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Criticism From SF Weekly Worse Than Global Financial Meltdown?

By Matt SmithHere's a pop quiz(R): Which is worse? A.) A U.S. banking crisis sparks a chain reaction in global financial markets leaving no economy unscathed, spawning talk of unemployment, poverty and despair like nothing seen since the1930s. B.) SF Weekly criticizes a bureaucrat. If you answe ... More >>

Why Medi-Cal Makes Doctors Sick

Money, paperwork and stigma

Hep Help

Money, paperwork and stigma

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Shaky bond insurers cost taxpayers money

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Political Insurance

To help thousands of the disabled, a San Francisco attorney takes on an insurance company -- and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Risk Reassessment

As the Bush administration scares America witless, San Francisco might offer a model for living well in the shadow of apocalypse

Letters to the Editor

Shake, Rattle, and Roll;Musical Notes;Puni, Unlike Muni, Keeps Rolling Along

Rubble With a Mortgage

What could be worse than a devasting earthquake in the Bay Area? The day after, when we all realize that no one is covered by insurance.

South to the Future

For Baby Boomers, the Doctor Is in ... the Bathroom

Bitter Medicine

How Naiveté, greed, and the new new thing brought Brown & Toland, San Francisco's largest doctors' group, to the verge of bankruptcy

Drug Warfare

A Marin pharmacist sticks up for the little guys, and gets run over

Dog Bites

A Marin pharmacist sticks up for the little guys, and gets run over

Sutter's Giant Sucking Sound

Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

Dog Bites

Sutter Health, which owns one of California's largest hospital empires, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity. Critics wonder why Sutter dispenses so little charity, and vacuums so much profit, from the hospitals it acquires.

Unhealthy Debate

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

The Grid

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Dog Bites

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Misdeeds

An investor finds that he has been swindled, and that the schemer was aided by a mortgage industry lacking oversight.

Who cares about gas lines? Worry about killer cellphone radiation

An investor finds that he has been swindled, and that the schemer was aided by a mortgage industry lacking oversight.