Health Care

"The legislature must avoid establishing a costly disincentive that would hinder the saving of other neighbor islands' hospital systems through healthy public-private partnerships...."

“There’s plenty of resistance from insurance companies at the state level against direct primary care."

...In a Special Session, Legislators may amend the bill and take a vote - bill passes with a simple majority....

...The new hospital public-private partnership is estimated to save the state $260 million in costs over the next decade....these savings could disappear if the costs for the transition is too great....

...the costs can add up to as much as $57,772 per year in Hawaii....

...single-payer advocates are focusing on individual states....

Compact Impact: Why Pacific Islanders are Fleeing to Hawaii - Neil Mellen...

On July 12, any measure that has not been signed or vetoed by Gov. Ige will become law with or without his signature....

20 years ago, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that an agreement between the County of Hawaii and a private contractor for the operation of a county landfill violated civil service laws....

...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

...negotiations continue and the order still prevents the parties from actually closing the transaction....

...Meet the Insurance Executive Behind Assisted Suicide in Hawaii....

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is administered in odd-numbered years to Hawai‘i public school students in grades 6–12....

"All patients of all ages will be negatively impacted by service cuts, so please support privatization.”

Zika will not just disappear in Hawaii, it will take constant vigilance, and lots of pesticide spray, to keep it in check....

...OIA is now training migrants to maximize their dependency on taxpayer-funded services in Guam and Hawaii....

Next-generation seniors set to be less healthy than current seniors, with 55 percent growth in diabetes, 25 percent increase in obesity....

“He can be instrumental in our efforts to keep the UH Cancer Center NCI-designated"

The results are pretty bad, according to a report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta....

...the Obama administration already has the authority to pay for a Zika response from existing agency budgets, but chose not to....

...Will HGEA/UPW $40M Shakedown stand up in court?....

...part of a larger initiative to transform medical care for serious illness in the state of Hawaii....

Today’s order lasts only until September 30, 2016, unless sooner terminated by the Court. The Court also ordered the parties to the lawsuit to file a joint status report on or before June 30, 2016....

...Maui Health System will manage operations at each of the hospitals effective July 1, 2016....

... will Hawaii be next? ....

At 18.5%, Hawaii has the lowest adult obesity rate in the U.S., closely followed by Colorado at 19.8%....

...Study Examining Senior Care Cost and Quality Reveals Best and Worst States to Age in....

...The rule goes into effect August 8, 2016....

“Medicaid fraud takes tax dollars from patients who need coverage and gives it to criminals."

Dr. Phil Eskew, founder of DPC Frontier, says the bill’s language requesting the insurance division of DCCA to conduct a survey suggests Hawaii lawmakers don’t understand what DPC is....

... serious and sometimes fatal infections ... high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women ....

"...this measure unreasonably intrudes upon a system of federal law in violation of the Supremacy Clause...."

House Democrats are here to cut off your ....

When it comes to hiring a home health aide, where you live matters....

"As Zika continues to spread rapidly overseas, we must take precautionary measures to prevent any locally acquired cases from taking hold in our state.”

... people who promote sexual reassignment surgery “are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder” ....

...requesting a waiver of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act that compromise the state’s existing Prepaid Health Care Act...

...Until recently, hospital labor on Maui was given exclusively to a public labor union. As a result, 70% of the budget was spent on employees....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

Field trials in Brazil are using a genetically modified form of the A. aegypti mosquito....

A federal judge refused the unions' request for an emergency stay in February, leading to Wednesday showdown in the Ninth Circuit....

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit lobbied hard Wednesday for Hawaii to pause its plan to privatize money-pit hospitals on Maui and Lanai....

...dozens of Hawaii County organic farmers are refusing access to State and County mosquito-eradication workers....

"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."

Public-Private partnerships will provide medically frail homeless discharged from The Queen’s Medical Center with a safety net for short-term homecare and housing support....

...some project that vapor products will surpass traditional cigarettes in consumption over the next decade....

The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex....

"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when Zika comes here to this island, and we have a very unique opportunity right now to squash it."

...Oahu ranks best followed by Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Counties....

... In Hawaii 42.4% of people ages 18-64 with disabilities are employed, 8th highest in USA ....