San Francisco Mayor Wants Socialized Medicine For All

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Mayor Gavin Newsom's plan to make San Francisco the first city in the nation to offer universal health care is, in reality, the dramatic expansion of a vision that existed long before he first ran for elective office.

In 1994, at the urging of the state, the city created a health care management organization, akin to Kaiser Permanente, for residents served by the state insurance program that covers medical expenses for low-income Californians, known as Medi-Cal.

The formation of the San Francisco Health Plan was intended to control costs by better managing the care provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The health plan signed up its first member in 1997 and has been expanded three times since to pull in new groups of low-income residents and workers. The health plan now has 52,000 members, 32,000 of whom receive Medi-Cal coverage.

Here's a town that's lost 4.8% of its' population since the 2000 Census and they want to expand the government even more.