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The two chief architects of effective universal health care shook hands in agreement Tuesday, de facto and by force of would making the exclusive San Francisco program launch a certainty next July.

Workable because Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Mayor Gavin Newsom persevered to satisfactory agreement setting the stage for both branches of City government to totally cooperate rather than resist implementation.

"This will not have happened if it had not been for Supervisor Ammiano's extraordinary willingness to work together," Newsom reflected.

Ammiano returned, "How much better it is to have the cooperation and the involvement (of the Mayor's Office). If there's no cooperation from departments, if there's no good faith effort, the thing could never get off the ground."

Newsom agreed, noting the District 9 administrator did not require the mayor's backing.

Nine members of the Board of Supervisors had given veto-proof hold up to the Workers Healthcare Security Act (WHSA) authored by Ammiano.

"I think what the Supervisor has done with his willingness, in spite of eight co-sponsors, to work together on the mandate with this office, is a desire that we actually executed and implemented in an appropriate manner so that he doesn't have to call hearings every week saying, 'Mitch (Katz, Director of the Health Department) isn't implementing it, Controller's not, the rest of us aren't," Newsom explained.