Some fear the administration’s proposal is an effort to increase enrollment in the state-run insurance exchanges mandated under the president’s controversial health care law.

...the operating subsidy for transit has been increased by $600 million over the next 18 years to a total of $6 billion dollars....

... Many gathered again in the parking lot as more police arrived and flaring tempers were separated by additional HPD officers ....

Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Waimanalo Health Center, the Hilo Bay Clinic, West Hawaii Community Health Center, Hana Community Health Center, and Malama I Ke Ola Health Center on Maui....

We're starting to appreciate the Chief's "functional" approach. What say we apply that same test to a legislature's statement regarding the "public use" for which it is condemning property?

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision sets the stage for an historically unprecedented confrontation between Roman Catholics and the federal government over whether Catholics remain free to exercise their religion ....

This decision will energize freedom-loving Americans to once again take matters into their own hands....

The last thing we need is another tax, especially at a time when the people of Hawaii and our nation desperately need jobs....

... bureaucrat-focused, DC-centered approach based on bigger government is not what is right for Hawaii, or the nation ....

The Senate Minority voted “NO” on 7 of these measures—often casting the lone vote in opposition— and on one bill “with reservations.”

... It creates a debilitated, inoperable version of health-care regulation ... a jumble of now senseless provisions ....

Abercrombie’s campaign platform portrays abandonment of the Prepaid Act as a step to “Develop a System of Universal Healthcare.”  It is exactly the opposite.  In the fine print, Abercrombie focuses squarely on managing the State’s finances so “costs are controlled so that we can collectively afford the system and pay for it in a way that is fair and sustainable. We need to create efficiencies out of the current incoherence in our system, create incentives and opportunities for cost-effective preventive healthcare….”

It’s all about the money.

"...it's time to put the political histrionics aside and work to implement the law...."

In Hawaii 84,130 will be added to Medicaid. Many will first lose their existing private health insurance.

...questionable policy judgments in the PPACA such as the decision to create unelected Independent Review Boards, the punitive tax on medical device manufacturers, and the elimination of Medicare Advantage programs deserve meaningful bipartisan discussion....

"But having read more of the opinions, I'm much relieved about individual rights and the states' rights within the constitutional structure."

“Here in Hawai'i, we already have our Prepaid Health Care Act, which enables a vast majority of our residents to be insured...."  (Then why is he trying to dismantle it?)

Fitch believes HPH's strategy augurs well for sustained financial performance in a pressured reimbursement environment....

flames of ignition light up the black night and shake the grounds of the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) as a medium-range missile accelerates out of its launch pad ....

ADF is challenging the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate in several lawsuits because it unconstitutionally requires faith-based employers to provide or pay for insurance coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and devices ....