Excerpt: A federal appeals court boosted San Francisco's hopes [yesterday] of reviving its plan to extend health coverage to all uninsured residents and make employers share the cost. Members of a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made it clear they thought U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White was on shaky ground last week when he struck down a key funding provision of the health program, which would require medium and large companies to offer insurance to their workers or pay a fee to the city.  MORE >>