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1,000 Uninsured Enrolled in Healthy San Francisco
August 15th, 2007 10:21 am

Mayor Gavin Newsom Health careBy Heather Knight
SF Chronicle

San Francisco's unique foray into universal health care has proved more popular than anticipated, enrolling its 1,000th participant last week - weeks before public health officials expected to hit the milestone.

Coping with the overwhelming number of people wanting to learn more about the program - called Healthy San Francisco - has been the only major hurdle for the health department since the program started July 2, according to Dr. Mitch Katz, the city's public health chief.

"That's the kind of problem we want to have," he said Tuesday. Read more »

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