Health Care

...replacements, renovations and upgrades to our aging infrastructure at several state hospital facilities....

"Last month, the Republican National Committee filed public-records requests in Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Oregon seeking information about compensation and vacation time for the exchange directors, four of whom have resigned."

Several House Democrats want the state to take over the Hawaii Health Connector, set up last year as a private, nonprofit....

...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.....

The federal government will reimburse insurers for 50 percent of any losses through the "risk corridors" in the Affordable Care Act....

New advertisements, online tools and events have been designed to encourage uninsured residents to set appointments....

...McDermott, who enrolled his eight children in Hawaii’s public schools, doesn’t want his 11-year-old son exposed to a controversial taxpayer-funded sex education program....

The law imposes new costs and mandates on employer sponsors of health and welfare trust funds, but leaves irresponsible companies free of any obligation to contribute towards their employees' health insurance....

Board of Education (BOE) Hearing Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2014, 1:30 PM....

Attorney General David M. Louie joined 46 fellow state and territorial attorneys general in signing a letter sent to the U.S. Trade Representative....

NOTE: Hawaii HB1789 is a Therapy Ban modeled on the laws discussed in this article....

...the suspect's mother describes the revolving door of mental health facilities and half-way houses through which her son has passed in the last year....

...a package of bills intended to help the Hawaii Health Connector improve transparency and reliability and ensure the agencies financial stability....

CMS plans to save $144 million a year with these measures between 2015 and 2019....

Annual Economic Cost Due to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Hawaii: $655 Million....

Beginning in fiscal year 2015, the distribution of tobacco settlement funds for tobacco prevention and control will return to 6.5 percent after being redirected into the general fund to offset budget deficits for the past several years....

...even Americans who oppose abortion may be forced to support it—through Obamacare....

The Kuakini project is part of Metrus' $75 million commitment to the White House's Better Buildings Challenge....

Pono Choices offers little to no information on sexual harassment, Sexually Transmitted Infections, their symptoms and consequences or single parenthood....

...we have a handful of states that can only be described as the laughing stocks of Obamacare....

Recipients are automatically renewed for another year if they don't respond to the annual query....

AARP Hawaii will ask lawmakers to support a bill requiring hospitals to formally acknowledge a patient’s family caregiver at the time of admission ....

You can use Hospital Compare to find hospitals and compare the quality of their care....

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....

Thirty-six states (including Hawaii) require that health care providers seeking to offer or expand their services obtain what are known as Certificates of Need (CON)....

“Hawaii’s gaps in hospital and treatment facility capacity lead to overcrowding, long wait times and an inability to respond to disasters,” said Dr. Ishida....

Approximately 300,000 beneficiaries are currently receiving services through the QUEST Integration program. ‘Ohana is one of five health plans selected to receive an award....

Of Hawaii’s 30,000 small businesses, 296 registered for insurance through the Hawaii Health Connector by the Dec. 25 deadline....

...the HIT would increase health insurance premiums by more than $2,800 per person and $6,800 per family over a decade....

The Population Institute today released its second annual report card ....

...a family of four could pay a $962 premium under ObamaCare but only a $160 premium under the Walmart plan....

After weeks of bureaucratic run-around McDermott finally received a copy of the requested materials....

• DATE: Monday, January 13, 2014
• TIME: 2:00 pm
• PLACE: Conference Room 329, State Capitol

Obamacare creates a new entitlement program while expanding another.....

nearly three-quarters (74%) of uninsured nonelderly people in the state are eligible for financial assistance to gain coverage through either Medicaid or the Marketplaces....

Meanwhile, Hawaii’s Democrat lawmakers are also criticizing the exchange....

A group of 10,000 low-income Oregon residents who recently obtained Medicaid coverage visited ERs 40 percent more often....

...the benefits in her new plan are better than her previous plan and cost about $30 a month less....

Below is the response of the HRP Executive Director, Kayla Berube, to the HI Health Connector's request for GOP help in boosting enrollment numbers....

The Little Sisters take care of more than 13,000 poor men and women around the world who are elderly....

Alliance Defending Freedom and its allied attorneys are currently winning their cases by a wide margin, with court orders going 15-1 against the mandate....

This is only the beginning—watch how two of these taxes get worse in the years to come....

...premium payers will get a new round of cancellation letters starting this September, just in time for the elections....

• DATE: Tuesday, January 07, 2014
• TIME: 10 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

...who stands to benefit most and least as a result of its implementation....

While expenses have been slowly increasing for health care providers, legislated payment updates have remained flat since 2011....