SF News Healthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Was Reported Missing In San Francisco This Fall The suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was thought by his mother to be living in San Francisco earlier this year, though it's not at all clear that he ever did.
SF News Man Arrested In Connection With Healthcare CEO Slaying Spent Time In Bay Area A man whom New York police are describing as a "strong person of interest" in last week's murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested in Pennsylvania and identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
SF News Rally Planned to Protest Mayor Breed's Omission of City Clinic Relocation Funds In Proposed Bond Measure LGTBQ health advocates, along with City Clinic doctors and members of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club are rallying today outside the clinic on Seventh Street to protest Mayor London Breed's omission of clinic funds in a proposed bond measure.
SF News Kaiser and Healthcare Workers Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Largest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History The biggest healthcare worker strike in the nation’s history technically only lasted three days, but resulted in a 21% wage increase for pandemic-frazzled employees of the Oakland-based healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente.
Business & Tech Amazon Buying Up SF-Based One Medical for a Reported $3.9 Billion Those One Medical offices that have popped up around town over the last ten years are actually a national chain, and Amazon just bought up that SF-based chain for nearly $4 billion.
SF Politics Universal Healthcare Bill Falls in State Assembly Yet Again A bill to bring publicly funded healthcare to every Californian did not even make it to the floor for a vote, to the delight of opponents who called it a “government healthcare takeover.”
SF News Sutter Health Price-Gouging Exposé Lands Hillary Ronen on ‘60 Minutes’ Sup. Hillary Ronen popped up on “60 Minutes” Sunday night to proclaim “We are getting screwed” over Sutter Health’s alleged monopoly and price-gouging practices.
SF Politics New Ordinance Will Require SFO Employers to Provide Healthcare to More Workers SF's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a new ordinance requiring many employers with workers at SFO — including catering workers, cabin cleaners, and baggage handlers — to pay for healthcare family plans for those workers.
SF News 28 Bay Area Residents Charged By Feds In Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco on Thursday announced the filing of charges against 30 defendants — two corporations and 28 individuals — in an illegal kickback scheme connected to an East Bay home health care provider.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Robot Barista At Metreon Charges For Healthcare So this is funny: There's a robot-manned coffee bar thing at the Metreon called Cafe X, and even it wants you to chip for its healthcare. Local blogger Mr. Eric Sir alerts us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Billionaire Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Owner Complains That SF's Healthcare Mandate Hurts Restaurants Billionaire restaurateur turned reality TV host Tilman Fertitta, the man behind chains like Rainforest Cafe and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., just gave some of his own quotes to CNBC regarding changes to healthcare
SF News Healthy SF Program Could Be Expanded In Wake Of Obamacare Repeal At least in San Francisco we can rest assured our city leaders are battle-ready, organizing their troops and laying out strategies for fending off the destructive flanks of Donald Trump's approaching armies. The
SF News Covered CA Rates To Jump 13% Statewide, Almost 15% In SF Next year, monthly premium rates in California will go up by 13.2 percent on average, the result of two insurers who have requested steep rate increases. As CBS5 and the AP report,
SF News Blood Testing Startup Theranos Is Now Under Criminal Investigation, SEC Probe Federal prosecutors are investigating the possibility that Theranos, Inc., a blood testing startup once valued at $9 billion, misled its investors with regard to its proprietary pin-prick blood sample technology. That was the
SF News CEO Of Healthcare Startup Theranos Faces 2-Year Ban From Blood Testing Biz Theranos founder and chief executive Elizabeth Holmes, a 32-year-old Stanford dropout who claims her aversion to needles led her to invent proprietary blood testing technology requiring just a pin-prick, faces a two-year ban
SF News Labs For Healthcare Startup Theranos Present 'Immediate Jeopardy To Patient Safety' The first results from an investigation into Palo Alto-based healthcare technology startup Theranos are in, and they aren't favorable for the health of the formerly whinnying Silicon Valley Unicorn. The blood-sampling technology upon
SF News What Will Happen With Healthy S.F. After Obamacare Begins? Supervisors like David Campos are fighting to keep San Francisco's pioneering Healthy S.F. ordinance in place after Obamacare takes effect in January, but Mayor Ed Lee is saying all options are still
SF News Right-Wing Outrage Over 'Obamacare' Waivers Issued to S.F. Companies Of the 204 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (AKA "Obamacare") waivers President Barack Obama approved in April, nearly 20 percent are for "fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority
SF News Federal Judge Rejects Obama's Healthcare Reform A federal judge in Virginia ruled President Obama's healthcare law unconstitutional, the first kind of ruling on Obama's landmark (and much needed?) reform. "Judge Henry E. Hudson of the Eastern District Court in
SF News To Vaccinate Or Not To Vaccinate? So it seems even folks in the more wealthy, educated quarters of our fair city can succumb to superstition. The proprietors at the More Mojo clinic are throwing in their lot with the
SF News Mock Funeral for Health Care Cuts Today Because city health care programs are under the false impression that they are untouchable bastions of altruism and benevolence, a coalition of community groups, labor, and concerned citizens will hold mock funeral at
SF News Happy Melanoma Monday! The American Academy of Dermatology is launching a new campaign to get girls from 16 to 29 years old (and boys in the same age range who live in district 5) to stop
misc Health Care Program for the Uninsured Dealt Blow After a federal judge blocked "a key provision of a new city program providing basic health care to uninsured residents, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is scheduled to petition the Ninth Circuit Court of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Everyone knows the Saturday of Pride Weekend is the Dyke March! Put on your motorcycle helmet and take off your top. The theme this year (for the 15th anniversary) is "Healthcare for All,
SF News The Internet Archive Versus the DMCA Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet
