The Medical Freedom Channel

“As the national debate rages over how to fix the country’s broken healthcare system — with 2008 presidential candidates offering up their solutions and Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko opening Friday — San Francisco will become the first city in the country to actually try to solve the problem itself. Starting Monday, the city will roll out Healthy San Francisco, designed to eventually provide local medical care for all 82,000 city residents who lack health insurance. Recently renamed, the initiative received unanimous Board of Supervisors approval last summer. It will start with just a few hundred patients in Chinatown but is designed to ramp up to full citywide coverage within 18 months.” (06/28/07)