Health Care

Congress is well on its way to solving its Obamacare problem—for Members of Congress and their staffs, that is....

The FDA estimates that first-year compliance costs could be as high as $537 million for all regulated businesses covered under the rule....

Hawai‘i Health Connector today announced that it is partnering with 34 community organizations throughout the state....

...this IOM report has been pretty thoroughly debunked....

High anxiety is gripping Capitol Hill. The reason: On January 1, 2014, Members of Congress and their staff will lose their current employment-based health insurance and will instead be offered coverage in the health insurance exchanges established under the new health care law....

President Obama assured lawmakers that they and their staffs wouldn't be foisted onto the same health exchange as millions of Americans....

...a couple would be eligible for subsidies worth $3,452 to purchase a so-called silver insurance plan if they made up to $62,040 per year. But if they made just $1 more than that, they would lose the subsidy....

Members of Congress head home tomorrow for a month-long recess....

It’s not even August, and Members of Congress are starting to buzz about the upcoming budget and debt ceiling fight....

The movement to defund Obamacare is gaining traction in Washington....

...community forum on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in the Queen’s Conference Center Auditorium....

...a delayed and untested verification process is an open-invitation to cheat....

Caldwell announced today the selection of veteran transportation planner Harrison Rue as the Administrator of the City’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Program....

1. Obamacare is going great.
2. I cut the deficit in half.
3. Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.

“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....

The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no stone unturned in a relentless search for help with getting people to enroll in health insurance plans this fall....

Obama yesterday gave a speech on Obamacare, trying to justify the fact that premiums continue to rise, violating his 2008 campaign promise to lower them by $2,500 per family per year....

Most primary care doctors are still waiting for the Medicaid pay raise that was scheduled to begin in January under the Affordable Care Act...

HLE for males at age 65 years varied from a low of 10.1 years in Mississippi to a high of 15.0 years in Hawaii....

Lowering health care costs is tougher than improving the quality of care, according to first-year results from a key pilot program ....

No hospitals in Hawaii are nationally ranked. Three hospitals met standards for strong performance within the state....

Now that the odds that ObamaCare will crash and burn have ticked up a notch or two, the words “single payer” are being heard more frequently....

Obamacare was supposed to go so well, we were told....

"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."

Public Safety and Economic Development Committee hearing at Honolulu Hale, July 16th at 9:00 a.m....

...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....

DOH has acquired an adequate supply of purified protein derivative solution used for tuberculosis skin testing and will resume providing the test....

to hire 21 additional workers, who will assist 21,516 people with enrollment into affordable health insurance coverage....

turning to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could become a road map for cash-strapped cities....

Even Democrats have admitted the law has turned into a massive “train wreck,” with delays, glitches, and problems aplenty....

...prevent Hawaii residents from having their private medical information used as a marketing tool by drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), some of which also operate mail-order pharmacies....

A community pharmacist in the Northern Mariana Islands reports that his Medicare patients' closest preferred pharmacy is nine hours away by plane in Hawaii....

...if your population of patients is heavily inclined to Medicare and Medicaid then your reimbursements are low....

...mental health causes accounted for 5,180 hospital visits in Hawaii in 2011. That's well above the next highest cause, heart failure, with 2,954....

the Administration is delaying the employer mandate, which would force businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide government-approved insurance, until 2015....

overcharged Medicare for a back procedure known as "kyphoplasty" using a fraudulent billing scheme first exposed by two whistleblowers....

The number of veterans waiting more than a year to receive benefits jumped from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 by December 2012....

The ObamaCare law also stipulates that there "shall be no administrative or judicial review" of the board's decisions....

[M]ost of the specs have been written, but the all wiring hasn't been laid, and what will happen when they flip the switch nobody really knows....

A Medscape survey found 6 percent of physicians in the cash-only business in 2013, up from 4 percent in 2012. Most are primary care doctors....

within 5 years, half or more of them will be out of business....

By 2017, Hawaii is facing Medicare Home Healthcare payment at least 11.7% below cost, and up to 27.8% below cost....

... HHA continues to meet, without a budget, working on developing a universal, cost-effective health care system that will be ready for implementation when the Affordable Care Act inevitably fails....