I am in SF this week giving a speech at a convention (hence the photo of the fog rolling in taken from my room).
I noticed an extra fee on my lunch and dinner bills the last couple days and decided to look into it.
Since January, businesses have been required to offer health care to their employees (or pay a fee to the city). Healthy San Francisco requires every business in the city with 20-99 workers to spend $1.17 per employee per hour for health care benefits (over 100 employees must pay more).
Some restaurants are passing the fee on to the customers. Add this new fee to the 8.5% tax and 15%-20% you are already paying and you might want to rethink that second piece of carrot cake for the table (unless you are at Max’s Diner – that would be worth it).
Sure, San Francisco is pretty much putting socialized medicine on the map. Business owners don’t have to pass the cost on to the customers but what did you expect?
By the way, what to SF residents get for our money?
The following services are included with Healthy San Francisco:
- Preventive and Routine Care
- Specialty Care
- Urgent Care
- Emergency Care
- Ambulance Services
- Hospital Care
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Care
- Services and Tests
- Mental Health Care
- Family Planning
- Durable Medical Equipment
- Prescription Medicine
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