Paying for Health Care

Overheard in S.F.: Various Discussions Happening in the Occupy Camp

Benefit Planned for Mark McGovern, Gaelic Football Player Injured in Fracas

Mark McGovern​The hospital bills for Mark McGovern, the 22-year-old Gaelic football player who was in a coma, have reached well over $1 million -- and his family needs help. The McGovern's are planning a benefit for their son on Sept. 6, to collect as much money as possible for the Irish athlete w ... More >>

Tonight: See Great Local Bands, Help Indie Mart Founder Kelly Malone Battle Cancer

Kelly Malone​It would be easy enough to say, "Oh, yeah, the Sandwitches, Royal Baths, Art Museums, Carletta Sue Kay, and Social Studies are playing a gig tonight, you should go." But this is even easier, because tonight's show at the Independent is a benefit to help someone of great importance ... More >>

One Woman's Guide to Cheap S.F. Health Clinics

Kelly Malone​It would be easy enough to say, "Oh, yeah, the Sandwitches, Royal Baths, Art Museums, Carletta Sue Kay, and Social Studies are playing a gig tonight, you should go." But this is even easier, because tonight's show at the Independent is a benefit to help someone of great importance ... More >>

Jeff Adachi Says Proposition B Would Have Passed in Wisconsin

Wisconsin: Fertile ground for pension reform?​Public Defender Jeff Adachi is firing back against local labor leaders and legislators trying to draw a link between his pension-reform efforts in San Francisco and the battle over the future of organized labor that is playing out in Wisconsin.Adachi, ... More >>

Today at Papalote: All-Day Benefit for Godfather of Hip-Hop Kool Herc

Joe ConzoKool Herc doesn't have health insurance, and needs to come up with a hefty deposit for surgery.​Kool Herc (born Clive Campbell) threw the first-ever hip-hop party in 1973, and has been critically celebrated as the godfather of the youth culture that later took over the world. So it's ... More >>

Government lets fraudulent drug companies deal with Medicare

Joe ConzoKool Herc doesn't have health insurance, and needs to come up with a hefty deposit for surgery.​Kool Herc (born Clive Campbell) threw the first-ever hip-hop party in 1973, and has been critically celebrated as the godfather of the youth culture that later took over the world. So it's ... More >>

List: Longevity Is the Best Revenge

Joe ConzoKool Herc doesn't have health insurance, and needs to come up with a hefty deposit for surgery.​Kool Herc (born Clive Campbell) threw the first-ever hip-hop party in 1973, and has been critically celebrated as the godfather of the youth culture that later took over the world. So it's ... More >>

City's Multi-Billion Unfunded Health Care Liability To Be Revealed

Billions o' Benjamins...​Every once in a while, the government will do something that scares the bejeezus out of you. We're not talking about touching your junk or stealing your Happy Meal. We're talking about calmly and professionally adding up the numbers and candidly announcing that billions of ... More >>

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

Billions o' Benjamins...​Every once in a while, the government will do something that scares the bejeezus out of you. We're not talking about touching your junk or stealing your Happy Meal. We're talking about calmly and professionally adding up the numbers and candidly announcing that billions of ... More >>

San Francisco's Credit Rating Takes a Hit

​In our recent cover story on San Francisco's burgeoning, billion-dollar health care and pension obligations, we included the following hilarious assessment from Moody's Investor Services: "Our Aa1 rating on the city's [general obligation] bonds assumes that the city will prepare a long-term solu ... More >>

S.F. Legislators Approve $400K Gift to Insurers. Will Governor?

It's unanimous: let's screw San Francisco​In a year when San Francisco faces a $787 million budget shortfall, how do our representatives in Sacramento propose to help out? By unanimously supporting a measure transferring $400,000 annually in health care expenses from insurers to local San Francis ... More >>

Medical Drama

It's unanimous: let's screw San Francisco​In a year when San Francisco faces a $787 million budget shortfall, how do our representatives in Sacramento propose to help out? By unanimously supporting a measure transferring $400,000 annually in health care expenses from insurers to local San Francis ... More >>

'Truth' Takes Back Seat in Health Care Debate

Yes, Virginia, she's infected -- with socialism! ​Health care, undoubtedly, is the subject du jour. We are in the midst of a crescendo of health care coverage so overpowering and unrelenting -- well, it could make you sick. But are we learning anything via the nonstop written and televised coverag ... More >>

Gavin Goes Hollywood

Yes, Virginia, she's infected -- with socialism! ​Health care, undoubtedly, is the subject du jour. We are in the midst of a crescendo of health care coverage so overpowering and unrelenting -- well, it could make you sick. But are we learning anything via the nonstop written and televised coverag ... More >>

Aide: Congressmen Stark, Miller 'Very, Very, Very Strongly Support' Strong Public Option In Health Care Bill

Yesterday we wrote about a "Whip List" leaked to the media of Congressional Progressive Caucus members who had confidentially promised party leadership to only vote for a health care proposal that included "a robust public option." Scanning the names on the list, most of the Bay Area representatives ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

Yesterday we wrote about a "Whip List" leaked to the media of Congressional Progressive Caucus members who had confidentially promised party leadership to only vote for a health care proposal that included "a robust public option." Scanning the names on the list, most of the Bay Area representatives ... More >>

How Much for That Kitty in the Window?

Yesterday we wrote about a "Whip List" leaked to the media of Congressional Progressive Caucus members who had confidentially promised party leadership to only vote for a health care proposal that included "a robust public option." Scanning the names on the list, most of the Bay Area representatives ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

Week of 5-23-2007

Letters to the Editor

Week of 05-16-2007

Hospital, Heal Thyself

The rebuilding of the Laguna Honda nursing home is already three years behind schedule and millions over budget -- and the final plans aren't even finished yet

Trickledown Health Care

Hospitals and nursing homes call it "subacute care," but for some patients, it's just a death sentence

In Sickness and in Wealth

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

Letters

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

Why Medi-Cal Makes Doctors Sick

Money, paperwork and stigma