Interview

I interviewed a woman who worked for Healthy San Francisco, Vanda Baptista. She runs the Eligibility and Enrollment Unit which interviews clients to see if they are eligible for the program. She started of by telling me about how popular the Healthy San Francisco program is. The program is constantly having to tell people that the coverage is not yet available for their financial group.
Healthy San Francisco is starting by covering everyone who lives at poverty level then working their way up. The program currently gives coverage to people living at 3 times the poverty level. People who are eligible for the Healthy San Francisco program must be between the ages of 18 and 65 because otherwise they could be cared for through medicare or medicaid.
Healthy San Francisco is able to pay for all of the services because patients will no longer need to go to the emergency room so all that saved money goes to Healthy San Francisco.
Healthy San Francisco has an assortment of doctors who speak many languages. It also has clinics that specialize in certain forms of health care. The program gives health care to anyone who has not had insurance for 90 days and fit the financial requirements. The Healthy San Francisco program hopes to give health care of every uninsured San Francisco resident over the course of the next five years. For more information see the enclosed link.