Opinion: Alcohol Fee Would Recover Health Care Costs
The proposed Alcohol Cost Recovery Fee -- which would charge alcohol wholesalers and distributors "the equivalent of three to five cents a drink" would ensure that San Francisco has "stable funding to directly support fire department emergency transport, prevention, treatment and medical services to people whose lives are shattered by alcohol," John Avalos, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, writes in a San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece. Avalos, who proposed the fee, adds that the fee is a "strong remedy" to "recoup previously un-reimbursed costs for alcohol-related services."
- "A Nickel Per Drink Will Recoup Medical Costs of Alcohol" (Avalos, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/7).