The New York Times has a nice piece on the City of San Francisco’s efforts to provide health insurance to uninsured adults. This is good news because it shows that the system can be changed when principled people put their minds to work on “system change.” Still, the San Francisco program is best categorized as a public policy band-aid because it does not address the tremendous difficulties faced even by those who have health insurance.
In other words, while “universal health insurance coverage” is a good thing; “health care as a basic human right” is the best thing.
