Health Care

...the Administration keeps trying to “fix” it—to no avail. It has delayed parts of the law, ignored others, and carved out exemptions for its political allies....

...they face both dwindling reimbursements and payments increasingly tied to outcomes....

The regulation from the IRS formally codifies the fine charged to people without insurance....

Providers apply for the incentives using a secure, web-based tool from Xerox to show that they have implemented and used EHRs under federal guidelines....

In just 27 days, the Obamacare exchanges are scheduled to open....

If hired, feel free to send Hawai'i Free Press stories about your adventures as a state-funded insurance salesperson....

Obamacare is devastating policy for America....

UPS yesterday announced it is dropping coverage for spouses of employees....

...adult obesity in Hawaii has increased nearly three times from that it was a little over 20 years ago. In the past year alone, obesity has risen more than seven percent....

Open enrollment for Hawai‘i residents is October of this year....

Congress defunds mandatory spending on appropriations bills every year....

57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law....

ObamaCare's new insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid represent the building blocks....

...the case for defunding Obamacare....

the prevalence of preschool obesity ranged from 9.2% to 17.9%....

Just as in Hawaii, the Obamacare Exchanges in other states are not attracting insurance competitors....

...results of a feasibility study on the proposed adolescent residential drug treatment and healing facility are now available online....

When Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges open, your data could be exposed to shysters and hackers, thanks to serious vulnerabilities in the system....

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....