San Francisco Health Care Law Survives Final Appeal

Source: KPIX

After a four-year legal battle, the city of San Francisco's pioneering health care program overcame its last legal hurdle Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by a business group.

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association challenged a provision of the Healthy San Francisco program that requires employers to help pay for health insurance for their workers.

The group asked the high court to review a decision in which the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the employer spending mandate in 2008.

But the court Monday declined to take up the appeal, leaving the appeals court ruling as the final decision in the case.


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So if the government can require businesses to purchase private health insurance, I'm thinking that it's not too far of a reach to
say that government can require the same of individuals?