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Friday, February 7, 2014
Another $19.1M CIP for HHSC Hospitals
By News Release @ 3:30 PM :: 3571 Views :: Health Care

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

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Thursday, February 6, 2014
Epic Fail: Where Four State Health Exchanges Went Wrong
By Selected News Articles @ 9:50 PM :: 3890 Views :: Health Care

"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."

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Thursday, February 6, 2014
HI lawmakers: Obamacare exchange failures warrant state takeover
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:07 PM :: 3474 Views :: Health Care

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

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Explosive Report: How Obamacare Will Drive People Out of the Workforce
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 4645 Views :: National News, Health Care

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

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Taxpayers Covering Insurance Companies' Losses
By NCPA @ 7:31 PM :: 4543 Views :: National News, Health Care

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

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
"I Don't Know How President Obama Thinks That He's Helping Us"
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:11 PM :: 4607 Views :: National News, Health Care
“Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over, ‘If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance’?”
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Monday, February 3, 2014
Lagging Health Connector Launches New Ad Buy
By News Release @ 7:36 PM :: 3373 Views :: Health Care

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

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Monday, February 3, 2014
HI lawmaker renews fight to end or revise controversial sex ed program
By Malia Zimmerman @ 7:16 PM :: 7374 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Health Care

...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....

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Sunday, February 2, 2014
LIUNA, UniteHere 'Bitterly Disappointed' With Obamacare
By News Release @ 11:03 PM :: 5051 Views :: Health Care, Labor

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....

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Saturday, February 1, 2014
Feb 4-5: Pono Choices or Poor Choices?
By Hawaii Family Advocates @ 9:11 PM :: 8405 Views :: Education K-12, Family, First Amendment, Health Care

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

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Friday, January 31, 2014
Hawaii AG: Trans-Pac Partnership Endangers State Tobacco Revenues
By News Release @ 1:51 PM :: 5334 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Taxes

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

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
When Government Keeps Teens from Seeing the Therapist
By Selected News Articles @ 10:26 PM :: 7367 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care

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

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Roosevelt HS Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
By News Release @ 12:41 PM :: 10497 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Justice Reinvestment

...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....

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Six House Bills Address Failed Health Connector
By News Release @ 12:45 AM :: 4040 Views :: Health Care

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

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
New Rules to Deprive Seniors of Drugs, Doctors
By NCPA @ 4:12 PM :: 3445 Views :: Health Care

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

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Friday, January 24, 2014
Report: Hawaii Highway Safety Among Best in Nation
By News Release @ 10:28 AM :: 4367 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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

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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Tobacco Control? Hawaii Scores 'A' for Taxes and Regulation, 'D' for Prevention
By News Release @ 9:50 PM :: 5376 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes

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....

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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Why They Marched, in Their Own Words
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:06 PM :: 5763 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care

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

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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Kuakini Hospital Refit to Cut Energy Bill by $1M/year
By News Release @ 5:25 AM :: 4624 Views :: Energy, Health Care

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

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Pono Choices Coming to Every Middle School Next Semester
By Selected News Articles @ 8:18 PM :: 6677 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care

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

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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Hawaii: The Laughing Stock of Obamacare
By Selected News Articles @ 3:24 AM :: 7053 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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

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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Audit: Hawaii Medicaid Loses $67M/yr Due to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
By News Release @ 3:06 AM :: 9379 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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

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Friday, January 17, 2014
AARP Urges Passage of Caregiver Support Legislation
By News Release @ 11:13 PM :: 3674 Views :: Health Care

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

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Friday, January 17, 2014
Feds Compare Quality of Care at 17 Hawaii Hospitals
By News Release @ 4:12 PM :: 5298 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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

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Friday, January 17, 2014
OMB: $101B Spent on Incorrect Federal Payments Each Year
By NCPA @ 2:34 PM :: 4813 Views :: National News, Health Care

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

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Friday, January 17, 2014
State CON Laws Drive up Health Care Costs
By NCPA @ 1:53 PM :: 4004 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care

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)....

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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Hawaii Scores ‘F’, Lacks Access to Emergency Care and Disaster Preparedness
By News Release @ 1:00 PM :: 5261 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

“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....

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
WellCare's 'Ohana Health Plan Selected To Provide Managed Care Services Across Hawaii Under QUEST Integration
By News Release @ 11:54 AM :: 3046 Views :: Health Care

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....

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Bureaucracy, high prices, keep local business from into buying Obamacare
By Malia Zimmerman @ 8:25 PM :: 4853 Views :: Health Care, Small Business

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

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The 2014 ObamaCare Tax Wave
By NCPA @ 1:42 PM :: 3926 Views :: Health Care, Taxes

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


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Monday, January 13, 2014
Mainland Group Criticizes Lack of Hawaiian Population Control
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 5861 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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

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Monday, January 13, 2014
Share One of These to Let the President Know You Haven't Forgotten
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 PM :: 3244 Views :: Health Care
In 2009, President Obama threatened those who criticized Obamacare: “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.”
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Walmart Health Plan Better Than ObamaCare
By NCPA @ 9:26 AM :: 2997 Views :: Health Care

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

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Thursday, January 9, 2014
Pono Choices not medically accurate, age appropriate, or complete on STD risks
By Rep Bob McDermott @ 8:08 PM :: 9184 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care

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

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Finley Boyle Tragedy Exposes Danger of Primary Care Dentists Operating as Pediatric Dental Specialists
By News Release @ 1:06 PM :: 7238 Views :: Health Care
"The Hawaii Board of Dental Examiners shares in the responsibility for allowing a PCD to deceive the public into believing she is a Dental Specialist."
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
DoH to Take Oversight of Home and Community-Based Facilities?
By News Release @ 10:24 PM :: 3401 Views :: Health Care
  • DATE: Monday, January 13, 2014
  • TIME: 2:00 pm
  • PLACE: Conference Room 329, State Capitol
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
2014: Obamacare Puts Down Roots for the Long Haul
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3128 Views :: Health Care

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

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Monday, January 6, 2014
Kaiser: 57% of Hawaii Uninsured Eligible for Medicaid
By Selected News Articles @ 7:46 PM :: 5431 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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....

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Monday, January 6, 2014
Hawaii GOP refuses request to recruit for Obamacare exchange
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:21 PM :: 3954 Views :: Health Care

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

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Monday, January 6, 2014
WSJ: Medicaid Expansion Drives up Visits to Emergency Room
By NCPA @ 2:26 PM :: 2858 Views :: Health Care

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

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Saturday, January 4, 2014
Hawaii Health Connector Finds One Success Story
By News Release @ 12:31 AM :: 3331 Views :: Health Care

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

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Friday, January 3, 2014
HI Health Connector Solicits GOP Help in Boosting Enrollments
By News Release @ 3:19 PM :: 3950 Views :: Health Care

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....

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Friday, January 3, 2014
Meet the Humble Nuns Who Just Shook Up the Obama Administration
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:51 AM :: 6083 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care, Religion

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

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Thursday, January 2, 2014
UHERO: Hawaii Health Insurance Premiums, Oligopolies, and the Affordable Care Act
By UHERO @ 9:05 PM :: 5087 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
“Where do Hawaii plans/premiums stand relative to other states?”
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
2013 a bad year for Obamacare abortion pill mandate
By News Release @ 1:45 PM :: 5490 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care, Life

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....

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Thursday, January 2, 2014
More New Taxes and Fees: How You’ll Pay for Obamacare in 2014
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:04 PM :: 3772 Views :: Health Care, Taxes

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

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Happy New Year from HMSA: Premium now $1742.50 per Family
By Andrew Walden @ 8:23 PM :: 6322 Views :: Health Care

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

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Informational Briefing on Violence at State Hospital
By News Release @ 4:34 PM :: 4977 Views :: Health Care, Labor
  • DATE: Tuesday, January 07, 2014
  • TIME: 10 a.m.
  • PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Report: Obamacare Gives Hawaii More Cash, Less Benefit
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 5343 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care

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

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Monday, December 30, 2013
Auditor Looks at Workers Comp Medical Fee Review Process
By News Release @ 3:34 PM :: 5081 Views :: Health Care, Labor

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

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