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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
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Publicly Funded Ads Promote Purchase of HMSA, Kaiser Policies
By News Release @ 3:06 PM :: 3853 Views :: Health Care
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Open enrollment for Hawai‘i residents is October of this year....
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
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An Awesome Superhero Video About… Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:50 PM :: 3601 Views :: Health Care
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Would “an awesome superhero or action-movie style video” change your mind about Obamacare?
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Monday, August 19, 2013 |
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Top 2 Myths About Defunding Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:07 PM :: 3286 Views :: Health Care
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Congress defunds mandatory spending on appropriations bills every year....
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Saturday, August 17, 2013 |
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Friday, August 16, 2013 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation, Staff Illegally Exempted from Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:26 PM :: 4749 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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“If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”
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Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
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New Poll Shows Support for Defunding Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:57 PM :: 3360 Views :: Health Care
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57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law....
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
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Is ObamaCare Paving the Way for a Single-Payer System?
By NCPA @ 1:34 PM :: 3324 Views :: Health Care
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ObamaCare's new insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid represent the building blocks....
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Monday, August 12, 2013 |
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Defiance
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 PM :: 3391 Views :: Health Care
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...the case for defunding Obamacare....
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Saturday, August 10, 2013 |
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9.2% Preschoolers Obese: Hawaii Lowest in Nation
By News Release @ 5:27 PM :: 5415 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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the prevalence of preschool obesity ranged from 9.2% to 17.9%....
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Saturday, August 10, 2013 |
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Not Just Hawaii: Insurance Companies Reject Obamacare Exchanges--Reid Predicts Single-Payer Coming
By Andrew Walden @ 2:03 PM :: 4270 Views :: Health Care
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Just as in Hawaii, the Obamacare Exchanges in other states are not attracting insurance competitors....
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Friday, August 9, 2013 |
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Kauai Adolescent Drug Treatment Study Published, Site Selection Next
By News Release @ 10:03 PM :: 7178 Views :: Kauai County, Health Care, OHA
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...results of a feasibility study on the proposed adolescent residential drug treatment and healing facility are now available online....
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Friday, August 9, 2013 |
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The Next Threat to Your Privacy
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:06 PM :: 3571 Views :: Health Care
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When Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges open, your data could be exposed to shysters and hackers, thanks to serious vulnerabilities in the system....
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Thursday, August 8, 2013 |
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:00 AM :: 3616 Views :: Health Care
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Congress is well on its way to solving its Obamacare problem—for Members of Congress and their staffs, that is....
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013 |
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Obamacare Menu Labeling Law: The Food Police Are Coming
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:05 PM :: 5519 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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The FDA estimates that first-year compliance costs could be as high as $537 million for all regulated businesses covered under the rule....
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Monday, August 5, 2013 |
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HMSA, Kaiser Front Group Pays off 'Community Partners'
By News Release @ 2:51 PM :: 4204 Views :: Health Care
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Hawai‘i Health Connector today announced that it is partnering with 34 community organizations throughout the state....
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Monday, August 5, 2013 |
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Does the Doctor Need a Boss?
By NCPA @ 12:57 PM :: 3072 Views :: Health Care
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...this IOM report has been pretty thoroughly debunked....
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Saturday, August 3, 2013 |
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Congress in the Obamacare Trap: No Easy Escape
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:32 AM :: 3983 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Friday, August 2, 2013 |
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Is Congress Too Good for Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:17 PM :: 3452 Views :: Health Care
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President Obama assured lawmakers that they and their staffs wouldn't be foisted onto the same health exchange as millions of Americans....
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Friday, August 2, 2013 |
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More Disincentives to Work under ObamaCare
By NCPA @ 12:05 PM :: 3071 Views :: Health Care
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...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....
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Thursday, August 1, 2013 |
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Defund Obamacare: Make Your Voice Heard This August
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:58 AM :: 3136 Views :: Health Care
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Members of Congress head home tomorrow for a month-long recess....
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
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Why Is Washington Talking About a Government Shutdown?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:07 PM :: 4075 Views :: Health Care
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It’s not even August, and Members of Congress are starting to buzz about the upcoming budget and debt ceiling fight....
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013 |
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How to Use Obamacare to Scam Taxpayers
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:47 PM :: 4065 Views :: Health Care
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Looking for a little extra cash?
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Monday, July 29, 2013 |
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Defunding Obamacare Explained in One Infographic
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:20 PM :: 3953 Views :: Health Care
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The movement to defund Obamacare is gaining traction in Washington....
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Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
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Forum to Outline Changes to State Mental Health Care System
By News Release @ 4:02 PM :: 5436 Views :: Health Care
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...community forum on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in the Queen’s Conference Center Auditorium....
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Friday, July 26, 2013 |
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Can Obamacare Get the Young Blood It Needs to Live?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:43 PM :: 3579 Views :: Health Care
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of the projected 7 million exchange enrollees next year, 2.7 million need to be young adults to make the premiums work....
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Friday, July 26, 2013 |
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ObamaCare Glitch Number One: Verifying Eligibility
By NCPA @ 2:37 PM :: 3453 Views :: Health Care
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...a delayed and untested verification process is an open-invitation to cheat....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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Caldwell's TOD Pick Connects Smart Growth, Active Aging
By News Release @ 8:39 PM :: 7165 Views :: Health Care, Life, Rail
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Caldwell announced today the selection of veteran transportation planner Harrison Rue as the Administrator of the City’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Program....
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
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3 Whoppers from Obama’s Big Economic Speech
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 9392 Views :: National News, Economy, Health Care, Obama
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- Obamacare is going great.
- I cut the deficit in half.
- Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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Malpractice: Trial Attorneys Take on Negligent Abortionists
By Selected News Articles @ 10:29 PM :: 6193 Views :: Family, Health Care, Judiciary
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“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
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SAFE Retirement Bill aims to save state and local pensions
By Selected News Articles @ 12:06 AM :: 5575 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Health Care
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...an alternative to rising costs and reduced benefits....
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Monday, July 22, 2013 |
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Why the White House Is Panicking about ObamaCare
By NCPA @ 1:39 PM :: 3703 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Friday, July 19, 2013 |
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Obamacare, Simplified
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:09 PM :: 3809 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Friday, July 19, 2013 |
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WaPo: Few Medicaid Docs Have Seen 2013 Pay Raise
By NCPA @ 11:55 AM :: 3094 Views :: Health Care
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Most primary care doctors are still waiting for the Medicaid pay raise that was scheduled to begin in January under the Affordable Care Act...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013 |
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CDC: Hawaii Seniors Have Longest Health Life Expectancy
By News Release @ 4:30 PM :: 5185 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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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....
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Thursday, July 18, 2013 |
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Accountable Care Organizations Struggle to Lower Costs
By NCPA @ 2:56 PM :: 3915 Views :: Health Care
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Lowering health care costs is tougher than improving the quality of care, according to first-year results from a key pilot program ....
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
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US News: No Nationally Ranked Specialties in Hawaii Hospitals
By Selected News Articles @ 2:52 PM :: 5216 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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No hospitals in Hawaii are nationally ranked. Three hospitals met standards for strong performance within the state....
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
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The Left Also Wants to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
By NCPA @ 11:28 AM :: 3182 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
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The Administration’s Obamacare Denial
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:23 AM :: 3177 Views :: Health Care
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Obamacare was supposed to go so well, we were told....
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
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Hotel Workers, Teamsters, UFCW Turning Against Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:44 PM :: 5265 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."
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Monday, July 15, 2013 |
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Council Res 13-158: Backup Ambulance Services for West Oahu
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 10:28 PM :: 5352 Views :: Honolulu County, Health Care
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Public Safety and Economic Development Committee hearing at Honolulu Hale, July 16th at 9:00 a.m....
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Friday, July 12, 2013 |
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GAO: Hawaii COFA Cost Estimates 'Inaccurate'
By News Release @ 1:37 PM :: 6275 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Homelessness
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...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 |
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Hawaii DoH Finds New TB Test Supply, Restarts Testing
By News Release @ 4:19 PM :: 3770 Views :: Health Care
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DOH has acquired an adequate supply of purified protein derivative solution used for tuberculosis skin testing and will resume providing the test....
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013 |
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Obama Admin Spoons out Money to Hawaii Free Clinics
By News Release @ 2:22 PM :: 4218 Views :: Health Care
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to hire 21 additional workers, who will assist 21,516 people with enrollment into affordable health insurance coverage....
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Monday, July 8, 2013 |
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Health Exchange Could 'Solve' Hawaii's Unfunded Liability by Sticking Retirees with Inferior Coverage
By NCPA @ 6:04 PM :: 3963 Views :: Health Care
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turning to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could become a road map for cash-strapped cities....
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Monday, July 8, 2013 |
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Obamacare’s Dirty Dozen Implementation Failures
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:49 PM :: 3210 Views :: Health Care
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Even Democrats have admitted the law has turned into a massive “train wreck,” with delays, glitches, and problems aplenty....
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Saturday, July 6, 2013 |
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Acts 225, 226 Protect Pharmacy Choice, Patient Privacy
By News Release @ 9:40 PM :: 6668 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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...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....
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Saturday, July 6, 2013 |
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Feds: Some 'Preferred Pharmacy' Plans Cost More
By News Release @ 9:29 PM :: 4635 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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A community pharmacist in the Northern Mariana Islands reports that his Medicare patients' closest preferred pharmacy is nine hours away by plane in Hawaii....
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 |
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Clinic Owner: With Medicare and Medicaid, ‘Your Practice May Not Last Long’
By Jose Reque Martinez @ 10:06 PM :: 5044 Views :: Health Care, Small Business
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...if your population of patients is heavily inclined to Medicare and Medicaid then your reimbursements are low....
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 |
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Mental Health Top Cause of Hawaii Hospital Admissions
By News Release @ 9:48 PM :: 6444 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...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....
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013 |
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So Which Part of Obamacare Works, Then?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 3083 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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