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Mayors call for national healthcare
By: Brent Begin
Examiner Staff Writer
07/29/09 8:40 PM PDT
On Friday, Newsom spoke with mayors from across the nation in a conference call to drum up support for a national public healthcare option.
After asking mayors to introduce resolutions supportive of national healthcare reform in their own cities, Mayor Gavin Newsom, along with Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, introduced their own ideas for San Francisco.
As chair of the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s task force on healthcare, Newsom has been pushing cities to lobby for a White House plan for universal healthcare.
The Chiu and Newsom resolution says that the City and County of San Francisco “supports and calls for the immediate enactment of the [President Barack Obama] Administration’s health care reform principles.”
Newsom has been on the talk-show debate circuit in the last few weeks and has even penned some comprehensive blog posts about the “crisis” of healthcare in America.
In San Francisco, where healthcare has been provided to the uninsured since 2007, the debate is likely to be quick and one-sided.
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