Ammiano’s Health Care Proposal Won’t Be Slowed By MayorCasey Millsbyline‚ Feb. 02‚ 2006In a well-worn move from the Newsom playbook, the Mayor issued a proposal for providing health care to uninsured San Franciscans yesterday on the eve of a hearing that could have moved Supervisor Tom Ammiano’s own plan to the full Board. While Ammiano’s plan represented more than a year of negotiations between community groups and labor representatives, Newsom’s could end up being little more than an attempt to co-opt the issue while calming the Chamber of Commerce’s concerns about the proposal. Progressives, however, are already outlining what their bottom lines will be when negotiating the details of whatever compromise gets worked out. The most important one: that Newsom’s creation of a committee to do further research does not slow the legislation’s passage. |