In the national health care debate, Healthy San Francisco—San Francisco Health Plan’s universal coverage program—stands out as a model for publicly funded health care.
National Public Radio featured the Wax client today, and NPR’s corresponding health blog reported that the three-year-old program has lowered the number of hospital stays and the length of stays for plan members, and “[those] changes suggest chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension, are being managed better, reducing the need for crisis care.”