San Francisco Offers Health And Beauty To All Uninsured Residents

Health And Beauty As part of an effort to patch an inadequate federal system, the city of San Francisco has launched a program to offer subsidized or no-cost health care for all of the city's 82,000 uninsured adults, the New York Times reports. Healthy San Francisco, the first effort in the nation of a locality to offer health care to all of its residents, Health And Beauty is being financed primarily by the city.

Healthy San Francisco will offer uninsured residents access to 14 city health clinics and eight community clinic affiliates, Health And Beauty and the program will focus on preventive care and chronic disease management. Eventually, the city plans to include private medical networks in the program. Until November,Health And Beauty enrollment will be extended to uninsured residents living below the federal poverty level Health And Beauty.

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