San Francisco is attempting to follow the through with a socialized form of healthcare just as Massachusetts, Maryland, and Suffolk County of New York have been attempting. San Francisco has placed the burden of health insurance on the businesses of the city. The new law requires businesses to pay into health insurance depending on the amount of workers they employ. In San Francisco, 73,000 people are living without health insurance; half of those are currently working. The goal of the plan is to expand health insurance coverage by placing the responsibility on the businesses to fund it. While some of the businesses are covering the cost of health insurance, others are passing this cost onto the consumer. In some restaurants, the customer is being charged a “health insurance fee” to cover San Francisco’s new law.

            A restaurant group advocate took the new bill to court and won in the initial appeals. The law will be further examined in a higher court. But for now, many business owners are passing the responsibility to the consumer, claiming that the new bill is cutting into the company’s profits. Other business owners are concerned about the amount of employees they employ as the new Bill classifies employers into specific groups based on the amount of workers they employ. For a company employing just fewer than 100 workers, they will be reluctant to higher new workers and grow the business to refrain from moving into a larger size bracket.