Butterworth v. Boyd

EDMONDS, J., Dissenting.

The charter provision of the City and County of San Francisco which is attacked in the present proceeding provides, in effect, for compulsory health insurance of municipal employees. It allows the Health Service Board, a private organization over which the city has no control, to' order the city controller to deduct an amount to be determined by it from the compensation of each employee of the city and deposit such sum “with the treasurer of the City and County to the credit and for the use of the system”. Certain persons shall be and others may be exempted from this…