Health Care

...Waste Chief Reason Medicare Predicted to be Bankrupt by 2028....

How many lost jobs, shuttered businesses and lost earnings in Hawaii? ....

Mercatus Center Healthcare Openness and Access Project – Hawaii Ranks 29th....

...the State’s proposed regulation of Certified Professional Midwives, who comprise just a small segment of the midwifery profession, is insufficient and inconsistent with the State’s regulatory policies....

Up to 2,000 customers dependent on life support equipment or increased heating and cooling needs due to a medical condition verified by a physician....

Limit opioid painkiller prescriptions to one week at a time....

...Total Cost Per Smoker: $2,048,587....

Hawaii CD1 has the lowest Obamacare enrollment in the USA....

Dr Goodman is one of four people who have most influenced the changes shaping our health care system....

...some great scores...and some very, very poor ones....

Hawaii ranks 44th in "equality and integration" of healthcare....

The bill eliminates “safeguards” from current doctor-prescribed suicide laws and proposals....

Nationally, Orkin's bed bug revenue is up more than 10 percent over last year....

“This action acknowledges the success of the state’s Prepaid Health Care Act in providing insurance to a majority of Hawaiʻi’s residents...."

Democrat politicians’ first real step towards conceding Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced....

...severe birth defects related to infection with the Zika virus occurred in Hawaii much earlier than in 2016....

Earlier this year, our lawmakers passed Act 25. It bans smoking on the premises of our state-owned hospitals....

...no mention of the massive rate hikes....

...based on 10 key indicators of elder-abuse protection....

...Years of Positive Health Gains in the United States Threatened by Rise in Cardiovascular and Drug Deaths....

...The State is the senior partner in the tobacco industry....

As Republicans prepare to hammer out the details of a replacement for Obamacare, governors and state insurance commissioners are asking for a seat at the table....

2015 Gallup Healthways State Well-Being Rankings for Older Americans...

Completed Vaccination Consent Forms due to Schools by December 16....

...obesity and overweight rates increased high school educated people, while there is weak evidence that they decreased for the college educated....

The meeting will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6th at the Oahu Veterans Center at 1299 Kukila St, Honolulu....

The idea builds on a trend that is helping women obtain birth control more easily....

...encourage citizens of the Freely Associated States (FAS) who live in the 50 U.S. States to enroll in health insurance plans available under the Affordable Care Act....

...the Fall 2016 release of the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, a program which assigns A, B, C, D and F letter grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals....

January 1, 2017 is the first day that these waiver programs could take effect....

Back in June, it looked like the hike would be 16 percent....

...job search, job referrals, vocational training, and work-based learning opportunities to individuals with disabilities....

...premiums have continued to grow by 5 percent per year or more in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, and Utah....

Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces (also called exchanges) are expected to increase faster in 2017 than in previous years....

...MACRA imported all the worst elements of Obamacare into Medicare....

463 of the 479 active primary care practices in Oahu were contacted between 2/11/16 and 8/26/16 and questioned about current acceptance of new patients....

“We’ve never even heard of a publicly run hospital.”

Some have argued that health insurance is “not insurance”....

...administration will seek to both accelerate state payments into the Employee Retirement System pension fund and establish new rules for dealing with the privatization of government operations....

...Maui residents fly over to Oahu, bring thousands of our medical dollars there....  It is a guaranteed income for Oahu hospitals....

...The Case for Inclusion, an annual ranking of how well State Medicaid programs serve Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities....

The results of Hawaii Smiles confirm that Hawaii’s children have the highest prevalence of tooth decay in the United States....

...leadership and staff consistently reported difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees due to the cost of living, distance, and isolation of island life....

81.7% Regional Growth in Hospital Ownership of Physician Practices and Employment of Physicians....

Dr. Barry Shitamoto as Interim Chief Executive Officer effective Nov. 1, 2016.....

Among the many problems our community faces with the rampant homeless crisis is the use of our ambulances by a minority in our community, as a personal taxi service....

...the Maui Region Board announces Chief Executive Officer Wesley Lo’s departure effective October 31, 2016....

...a comprehensive bill to help ensure that veterans like Roy Hall get the benefits they've earned....