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Board approves health-care security ordinance changes in first reading after contentious debate
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors advanced an amendment to the city's Health Care Security Ordinance on first reading after hours of debate on whether the change would close a consumer- and worker-protection gap or impose undue costs on local businesses.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday advanced amendments to the Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO) intended to close what supporters described as a loophole that had allowed employers to collect funds labeled for worker health care but not ensure the money was used for medical services.
Supporters led by Supervisor David Campos said the change protects workers and consumers by requiring that money collected to pay for employee health care be spent to provide health care. "When you go to a restaurant and the restaurant owner makes a representation to you as a customer, that they're going to provide health care to the workers of that restaurant, every single cent that you pay on that bill should in fact go to…
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