Health Care

It includes topics such as physical and emotional health, healthy behaviors, work environment, social and community factors, financial security, and access to necessities such as food, shelter, and healthcare....

Obamacare in Pictures: 15 charts that show the law’s effects on Americans....

The two largest correctional facilities, in Honolulu and Waipahu, both hold more seriously mentally ill individuals than are held at Hawaii State Hospital....

The biggest risk to reform has always been that the scheme would founder on its complexity....

“The State will make sure that COFA residents continue to have uninterrupted access to their health benefits while this lawsuit is pending”

Providers across the country were surveyed to determine the average costs....

...featured speakers this evening will be George Powell, M.D., Neurologist, Maui Medical Group and Stanley Tillinghast, M.D., Cardiologist, Kaiser Permanente, Wailuku....

...Coburn voiced concern—from experience—about the lack of cancer treatment centers covered under Obamacare....

The governor plans to push for a waiver....

Matsuda said Hawaii’s diverse population and geography are impacting enrollment due to language barriers and cultural outreach issues....

The Connector's customer support center staff is making more than 1,000 calls per day to reach out to consumers who have started, but have not completed, the enrollment process....

Top officials from six state health insurance exchanges will testify Thursday, April 3rd in a House Oversight and Government Reform joint subcommittee hearing....

Hawaii Health Connector sign ups still come in at less than 1 percent of the state’s population....

...Obamacare as the ultimate April Fools’ Day punchline....

Today is kinda-sorta the deadline to sign up for Obamacare....

...request for the Government Accountability Office to review the taxpayer dollars used to fund the Hawaii Health Connector....

Despite the high risk and Hawaii's inability to open its exchange for two weeks after October 1, 2013, CMS allowed Hawaii's exchange to connect to the data hub....

...350 individuals and 17 businesses last week signed up for the Hawaii Health Connector with one week to go....

...in households spending a high share of their income on medical care....

There was no delay…until there was. The Washington Post reported last night that March 31 is not, in fact, the final word....

The Hawaii Health Connector seeks proposals from qualified bidders to provide professional marketing and communication services.... 

...consumers could see double-digit price hikes next year in states that fail to draw large numbers of [ACA] enrollees for 2014....

Today at the Supreme Court, some courageous Americans are standing up to Obamacare’s trampling of religious freedom....

Hawai‘i Health Connector is urging individuals and families to submit applications for health care coverage in a final push before the March 31 deadline....

Lloyd Lim details the pitfalls of organizing a 'Single Payer' healthcare insurance system in just one state....

Obamacare is now four years old. But unlike most 4-year-olds, it still can’t walk on its own....

Only 5,394 enrollments in the individual marketplace....

President Obama recently admitted that Obamacare will cause some Americans to lose their doctors....

To date Hawaii has failed or refused to release information pertaining to the grants citing “”a potential threat”....

Obamacare has caused seemingly endless problems, and one of the big—and very personal—ones will be on display at the Supreme Court next week....

...34,000 uninsured Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) in Hawai‘i are likely eligible for no cost health care coverage (such as Medicaid or CHIP)....

For 2014, the penalty for not purchasing insurance will be either $95 or 1 percent of your annual income (whichever is greater)....

The Hawai‘i Health Connector and Planned Parenthood of Hawai‘i today announced a joint effort....

In Hawaii, Obamacare has disrupted a health-coverage system that had seen 98 percent of the population insured before the recession....

It’s getting difficult to take any part of Obamacare seriously....

The administration had proposed new rules for seniors’ prescription drug plans in Medicare Part D....

Meanwhile: Get Medicaid? Lose Kupuna Care....

Since October 1, 69,041 people have been found eligible for Medicaid in Hawaii.  3,249 are eligible for CHIP.  Another 24,583 were deemed ineligible....

You just don’t understand how much better Obamacare is going to make your life; you’re afraid of change. It’s okay, he wants you to know; he understands....

The post-Obamacare increase averages out to an additional 1,174 persons applying for Medicaid each month since October 1.... 

The Hawaii Health Connector, the local Obamacare exchange, has a new campaign to boost enrollment — “Tell a friend.”....

The Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly (SCHHA) signed a $675,000 agreement today with the Hawaiʻi Health Connector to serve as a marketplace assister organization....

Starting this year, ObamaCare's "annual fee" tax will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher premiums....

...up until Thursday, the subsidies were only available to consumers who purchased health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's exchanges....

With anemic enrollment by individuals and little interest among small-business employers, the state’s nonprofit exchange -- known as the Hawaii Health Connector -- is unlikely to have enough money to pay its bills....