Health Care

Obamacare is keeping businesses from hiring....

Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage....

A death spiral occurs when pricing in an insurance market spins out of control....

Now that health plans and rates are available, standard weekly reports should be made public to chart the progress of enrolling Hawaii’s 100,000 uninsured residents....

The White House and Congress are inching closer to a conversation about serious entitlement reform....

Our national nightmare isn’t the government shutdown; it’s Obamacare....

The problem lies with the nature of the law itself, promising trillions in new government benefits while relying on dubious financing mechanisms. These problems were not only foreseeable, they were indeed widely foreseen....

HealthPocket also found that some exchanges did not allow for anonymous health plan shopping....

...while some consumers were able to view the information on plans and pricing, others continued to receive an error message....

Think small business owners really are going to get tax credits through Obamacare health exchanges? Think again....

Sorry, Hawaii is not included likely due to the last-in-the nation start for the Hawaii Health Connector....

On Friday (Sept. 27), the governor and his wife Nancie Caraway will travel to France.  Originally scheduled to return Oct 11, the governor is now planning to be back in Hawaii Oct. 20....

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Americans are learning the reason this law’s implementation was postponed until after the presidential election....

Most governments will need to summon substantial political will to use ObamaCare to drop retiree health care coverage....

The House has passed a variety of bills that would have reopened portions of the federal government, but the Senate has rejected them....

The shut down of the federal government pivots on which side will blink first....

Have you gotten a letter from your insurance company about your premiums going up? 

The web site went live Oct. 1, but those seeking health care coverage haven’t been able to review pricing or coverage information....

...this shady industry is trying to recover from a pretty good licking it received today from the FDA....

Hawaii, President Barack Obama’s birthplace, has the only online health insurance marketplace that has not yet launched....

The Hawaii Health Connector’s failed website was built under a $53M contract with the same CGI which has made a mess of the federal ACA signup website....

As the temporary slowdown in government operations enters its second week, I write to explain why conservatives have insisted on making the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the prime source of contention....

We won’t stop working until the doors to HawaiiHealthConnector.com are wide open.....

...sign up for Obamacare before this hot introductory offer expires....

President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive....

Prescription drug related deaths now outnumber those from heroin and cocaine combined, and drug overdose deaths exceed motor vehicle-related deaths....

The biggest problem with Obamacare is that there are going to be layers and layers of government bureaucracy that will try to tell me how to treat patients I’ve helped for over 25 years....

Under their current small-business group coverage they are paying $810.56 per month.  Their new price effective July 1, 2014 will be $1,166.24 per month....

The Insurance Commissioner will discuss concerns regarding new insurance requirements of the ACA and its impact on rates and populations groups ....

The Connector logged 19,457 unique visits to the site, completed 1,181 applications, and received 1,257 calls connected at the contact center on the first day....

The House has continually been reaching out to the Senate Democrats and President Obama to pass a resolution to ensure everyone receives equal treatment....

Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare....

Over the weekend, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to delay the unpopular law’s implementation by one year....

Today, Senators face a choice on the fate of Obamacare....

The Oliver Wyman consultants expect individual premiums to average $346 in Hawaii in 2014, up from an average of $231 today....

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to use procedural tricks to strip the House-passed bill of the provision that would defund Obamacare....

Hawaii’s small business owners with 50 or fewer employees with existing health insurance coverage don’t need to make any changes when the Hawaii Health Connector launches Tuesday....

"...stand with patriots like Senator Ted Cruz, who stood today with Senators Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio, on the floor of the US Senate for every American who will be affected by ObamaCare...."

The Heritage Foundation has been talking about defunding Obamacare for some time now, and people may be wondering why....

patients will be asked to disclose more personal information to their doctors — including how often they have sex and how with how many sexual partners....

1. Deductibles
   
2. Family rates
   
3. Smokers' rates
   
4. What's not covered

Fewer than half the U.S. population lives in communities where the most basic methods of diverting people with severe mental illness from the criminal justice system are being used....

there are already numerous reports of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of people’s confusion about ObamaCare....

Approximately half of mass shootings are caused by individuals with untreated severe mental illness....