As San Francisco struggles to control the cost of its health care obligations for government workers and retirees, it is putting more emphasis on actually improving its employees’ health.
New data suggest this emphasis is overdue.
A recent analysis of Kaiser Permanente users covered by The City’s Health Service System — the group of government employees considered healthiest — found that a staggering 66 percent of adults were obese or overweight. Meanwhile, 35 percent of dependent children were overweight or obese.
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More than 100 city workers took advantage of free health screenings provided by a mobile trailer parked outside a government building last month, and the results were not good. Of the participants, 64 had elevated blood pressure, 14 had elevated blood sugar, 45 hadn’t had an eye exam in the past 24 months, 27 were told they needed to see their primary care physicians in short order, and 25 had not had checkups in two or more years.
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Mayor Ed Lee’s “consensus” pension measure was sent out of the Board of Supervisors Committee on Tuesday morning, despite concerns from a number of retired city workers whose main objection was over the change in the governing rules of The City’s Health Service System.
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