San Francisco Mayor London Breed pushed a health-care plan switch that will save money but cause retirees undue pain, rival Mark Farrell says
During my time on the Board of Supervisors, before I served as interim mayor in 2018, I served on the San Francisco Health Service System board.
That is why I was shocked to witness what happened at the HSS in June at the direction of Mayor London Breed. This year, Blue Shield of California offered a competing plan for Medicare-eligible retirees that promised an estimated cost savings of approximately $20 million per year if its plan replaced UHC’s.
So too did the HHS board. On June 7, it voted 4-3 to reject the new Blue Shield option. In explaining his vote against the plan, Dr. Stephen Follansbee — a member of the HSS board since 2015 — said he was “concerned about the disruption to the physician-patient relationship, especially for members residing outside of urban areas.”
Chinatown leaders say bike-lane idea ‘blindsided’ them The neighborhood has never had a dedicated path for bicyclists in its more than 150-year history — but an SFMTA plan could change that I’ve always said that the mayor’s biggest policy and values statement each year is the budget. As someone who served as both interim mayor and the longest serving chair of the Budget Committee in San Francisco history, I understand the budget pressures inside City Hall.
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