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Tuesday, September 2, 2014 |
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State Releases Premium Comparison for ACA Small Group Plans
By News Release @ 8:09 PM :: 3417 Views :: Health Care
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...creates openness and rate transparency, and promotes increased competition by requiring Hawaii’s health insurers to allow its small group ACA rates to be published....
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Monday, August 25, 2014 |
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$48M Shortfall: HHSC Layoffs Begin September 2
By Andrew Walden @ 11:38 PM :: 4939 Views :: Health Care
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The following letter has been sent out to all HHSC employees....
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Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
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Hawaii Gets Mixed Reviews on Policies to Prevent and Fight Cancer
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 5531 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
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Hawaii is making progress when it comes to passing policies to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network....
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Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
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Hawaii’s largest insurance provider pulls small business plans from health exchange
By Malia Zimmerman @ 6:19 AM :: 3939 Views :: Health Care
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Hawaii’s health-care exchange, the Hawaii Health Connector, has taken another blow....
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Monday, August 18, 2014 |
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Medicaid Waiver Approval Can Take Four Years
By NCPA @ 12:12 PM :: 2874 Views :: Health Care
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...On average, it takes CMS 190 days to approve a waiver, though it can take up to 1,637 days (more than four years!) to receive approval....
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Monday, August 18, 2014 |
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Cavasso: Hawaii Does Not Have Unlimited Funds to Prop Up Health Connector
By News Release @ 12:46 AM :: 3576 Views :: Health Care
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“Bravo!…to HSMA for taking the lead in pulling out of the Health Connector...."
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Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
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Ward Proposes Terminally Ill ‘Right to Try’ Investigational Drugs
By Rep Gene Ward @ 11:32 PM :: 3561 Views :: Health Care
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...legislation that will make it legal for a terminally ill patient to access investigational drugs....
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 |
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Obamacare Still Struggling A Year Later
By NCPA @ 3:44 PM :: 2914 Views :: Health Care
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...ACA enrollees may also be sicker....
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 |
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GMO tobacco ‘mystery serum’ rescues Ebola virus victims
By Selected News Articles @ 10:00 PM :: 7795 Views :: World News, Health Care, GMOs
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...Genetically engineered tobacco plants produce an experimental Ebola serum....
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 |
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Q&A: Ten Things You Need to Know About Boehner Suing Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:52 PM :: 6126 Views :: National News, Health Care, Judiciary
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...Last week, the House of Representatives voted to authorize Speaker John Boehner to file a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s failure to fully implement Obamacare....
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
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Roofers: Obamacare Threatens Union Health Plan
By News Release @ 4:27 PM :: 5809 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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"The ACA is threatening to dismantle multi-employer health and welfare funds that provide affordable, high-quality health care...."
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
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Medicaid Should Be Included in Paul Ryan’s Anti-Poverty Proposal
By NCPA @ 2:37 PM :: 4029 Views :: Health Care
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Ryan is looking back to the success of the 1996 welfare reform....
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
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Hawaii Health ROI 4th in USA
By News Release @ 2:16 PM :: 4383 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...WalletHub used data from 47 states to construct a health-related return on investment metric....
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
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In Spite of Medicaid Expansion, Hawaii Hospital Performance up 10.7%
By News Release @ 5:32 AM :: 4624 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Overall non-Medicaid expansion states improved their median INDEX score by 0.6% while Medicaid expansion states median INDEX scores declined by (0.80%)....
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Friday, July 25, 2014 |
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US Territories Suddenly Exempted from Obamacare
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 AM :: 5773 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The decision covers residents in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands...the law was "undermining the stability" of the territories' insurance markets....
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Friday, July 25, 2014 |
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Quarter of Hawaii’s population now on Medicaid
By Malia Zimmerman @ 4:12 AM :: 5090 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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State figures show net enrollment increased 12 percent between Oct. 1 and June 30....
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
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Study: Hawaii’s Patient Waitlist Trend Increased
By News Release @ 5:52 PM :: 4797 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...lack of community-based resources to support patients with underlying mentally illness in managing their other medical conditions....
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
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Malfunctioning websites still delaying Hawaii Obamacare signups
By Malia Zimmerman @ 1:27 PM :: 3712 Views :: Health Care
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A $100 million web portal operated by the state Department of Human Services and designed by KPMG to connect Hawaii residents with Medicaid services has also been problematic, House lawmakers said Tuesday....
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 |
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Disgusting Hepatitis Infected Organic Food Leads to Lawsuit
By News Release @ 12:06 AM :: 5175 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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Hepatitis A, which causes severe gastrointestinal illness and, in severe cases, liver failure and death, incubates in the human body for between 15 and 50 days....
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Friday, July 18, 2014 |
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Bipartisan Action to Get Hawaii Veterans Immediate Access to Care
By News Release @ 10:36 PM :: 5057 Views :: Health Care, Military
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...the ACT Now for Veterans bill (H.R. 5131) to direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to reimburse non-VA medical providers who provide care to eligible veterans....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014 |
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Five Factors from the New CBO Report on Veterans’ Healthcare
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:01 PM :: 3108 Views :: Health Care
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The VA healthcare system is the sole source of coverage for only about one-fifth of enrolled veterans....
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014 |
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$204 million Obamacare grant reduces Hawaii’s uninsured population just 2.75 percent
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:30 AM :: 4200 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Many people in Hawaii already had health insurance because of a 1976 Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare law....
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Friday, July 11, 2014 |
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Hawaii 3rd Highest Unemployment Rate for Mentally Ill Persons
By News Release @ 5:28 AM :: 5210 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor
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Approximately 60 percent of the 7.1 million people receiving public mental health services nationwide want to work....
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 |
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Report: After Obamacare, 28% of Hawaii is on Medicaid
By News Release @ 11:51 PM :: 4416 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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26,010 individuals enrolled in Medicaid between Summer 2013 and April 2014....
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014 |
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Hawaii Opioid Pain Pill Prescriptions 'only' 52 per 100 people--Lowest in USA
By News Release @ 5:46 PM :: 5761 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Drugs
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...For all OPR combined, the prescribing rate in Alabama was 2.7 times the rate in Hawaii....
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Monday, June 30, 2014 |
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Djou: New VA Secretary Needs to Embrace Reform
By Rep Charles Djou @ 1:36 AM :: 4868 Views :: Health Care, Military
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The new VA Secretary needs to quickly understand the serious depth of the problems facing the VA in Hawaii....
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Thursday, June 19, 2014 |
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Sutton: Disconnect the Hawaii Health Connector
By News Release @ 11:27 PM :: 5494 Views :: Health Care, Politicians, Republican Party
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“Six more members of board of directors for the Hawaii Health Connector will vacate June 30 leaving the board without a quorum. It is a perfect time to replace it with a solution that is more appropriate for the state of Hawai’i."
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
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Veterans Affairs audit exposes Hawaii’s ‘infuriating’ wait list
By Malia Zimmerman @ 4:20 AM :: 4990 Views :: Health Care, Military
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...some 64,000 veterans enrolled in the system for at least 10 years have yet to see a doctor....
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
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Djou: Give Veterans a Private Healthcare Option
By Rep Charles Djou @ 8:53 PM :: 5271 Views :: Health Care, Military
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"...I applaud the recent Senate compromise action reached between Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) to allow vets access to private healthcare providers...."
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Full Text: DoE Report Takes Pono Choices ‘Off the Shelf’
By News Release @ 11:21 PM :: 6803 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
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"I see that several of the points that we made in our January 31st McDermott Report are being addressed," said McDermott....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Surprise! The Government Now Can’t Even Guess How Much Obamacare Ultimately Will Cost
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:05 PM :: 3179 Views :: Health Care
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Many of the “savings” and “revenue” (read: mandates and tax increases), whether Medicare cuts or employer mandates, have been waived, stalled or simply not implemented, making a defensible revised forecast impossible....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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Waitlisted patients cost Hawaii Hospitals $62.7M
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 5058 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Nearly one in five of Hawaii’s waitlisted patients — that is, those remaining in a hospital after the need for acute care ceases — have an infectious disease....
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Friday, June 6, 2014 |
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VIDEO: Rough Seas for Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie's Obamacare Exchange
By Video @ 1:41 AM :: 5221 Views :: Health Care, Politicians
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...Rough Seas for Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie's Obamacare Exchange....
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 |
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Hawaii Obamacare: Do you Pay for Other People's Abortions?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:17 PM :: 5943 Views :: Ethics, Family, Health Care
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...when the Bracy family investigated their options they couldn’t find any plan that didn’t both cover elective abortions and require a surcharge solely for that purpose....
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Representative seeks access to private medical care for vets
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:36 PM :: 4908 Views :: Health Care, Military
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"...immediately allow our veterans to use their VA identification card to obtain medical care through the private health care system, with the VA paying the bill...."
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014 |
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Honolulu Patients 2nd Happiest in USA
By News Release @ 1:36 AM :: 5348 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Vanguard derived its findings by developing special software to scour online reviews on Google+ and Yelp.com websites of 46,300 individual doctors....
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Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
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Debunking the Biggest Obamacare Myths
By NCPA @ 9:50 PM :: 3409 Views :: Health Care
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...6 million people have had their insurance policies canceled, and another 19 million are enrolled in private health plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act....
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Friday, May 23, 2014 |
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VA Hospitals: Why Single-Payer Systems Fail
By NCPA @ 11:55 AM :: 4629 Views :: Health Care, Military
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The problems emerging from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are deeper than corruption and mismanagement....
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Friday, May 23, 2014 |
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Abercrombie Releases CIP for Prisons, Mental Hospital
By News Release @ 4:29 AM :: 5918 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Law Enforcement
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...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $46 million for various capital improvement projects....
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 |
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Hawaii Ranks #2 in Senior Health
By News Release @ 6:51 PM :: 4513 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...16.0 percent of seniors with a college education are physically inactive compared to 50.2 percent of seniors with less than a high school education....
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014 |
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Yes, Some People Will Have to Pay Back Their Obamacare Subsidies
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:56 PM :: 2788 Views :: Health Care
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The Washington Post has inside sources providing all sorts of juicy details on this problem....
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
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RGA: "ObamaCare is not working for Hawaii"
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 4660 Views :: Health Care
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“Bad news is piling up for Governor Abercrombie’s Hawaii Health Connector."
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
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Feds Surprised Hawaii did not Change Health Exchange
By Selected News Articles @ 4:23 PM :: 4099 Views :: Health Care
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The CMS says it will continue to be flexible with states....
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Sunday, May 18, 2014 |
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Congressional Delegation Blocks Obamacare Exemption to Avoid “Awkward Political Narrative”
By Andrew Walden @ 8:46 PM :: 9137 Views :: Democratic Party, Health Care, Politicians, Obama
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"...we wrote to our congressional delegation and were told, in no uncertain terms, that we would not be able to secure it...."
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Friday, May 16, 2014 |
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Medicaid Expansion to Cost Hawaii $326M
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:38 PM :: 5107 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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“As with most new government programs, original estimates are likely not the true full cost.”
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Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
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Hawaii’s Obamacare exchange most costly in nation
By Malia Zimmerman @ 1:36 PM :: 4487 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Former U.S. Rep. Charles Djou, D-Hawaii, noted Hawaii’s enrollment cost is 26 times the national average, 2 1/2 times the cost for the second most expensive state....
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Saturday, May 10, 2014 |
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Djou: “Obamacare’s punitive costs and punishing demands hurt working people”
By Rep Charles Djou @ 1:37 PM :: 4440 Views :: Health Care
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"A recent study showed that the cost per enrollee for Obamacare in Hawaii is nearly $24,000."
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Thursday, May 8, 2014 |
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Hawaii Obamacare Cost Tops Nation -- $23K Per Enrollee
By Selected News Articles @ 9:10 PM :: 4772 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Excluding Hawaii and the District of Columbia, which were outliers, the state Exchange with the highest cost-per-enrollee was Massachusetts, at $5,681. Hawaii’s cost-per-enrollee was 32 times California’s....
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Monday, May 5, 2014 |
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9 Obamacare Predictions That Have Come True
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:59 AM :: 2856 Views :: Health Care
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Here are nine of our predictions that have come to pass—and it’s not over yet....
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Friday, May 2, 2014 |
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Hawaii Health Connector Claims 9,785 Enrollees
By News Release @ 3:09 PM :: 4719 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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The Hawai‘i Health Connector Hawai‘i concluded its first open enrollment period, which included a grace period that ended on April 30, with 9,785 enrollees....
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