Health Care

...Grassroot Institute Testifies in Support of CON Law Reform....

To date, recovery of the billions in wasted state exchange funds has been near non-existent, despite failed exchanges in Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Nevada costing taxpayers $733 million....

...Watchdog group expresses hope that there will be no more roadblocks to better patient care....

...allow manufacturers of “investigational” drugs and treatments to make such treatments available to eligible terminally ill patients....

Dr. Sarah Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health....

A federal judge rejected United Public Workers' emergency request to stay a law that privatizes three Hawaii hospitals and strips some 500 workers of civil-service protections....

...Prohibits therapists from counteracting the effort of a child molester to turn your son gay....

...while GM methods face challenges when applied in a continent as large as Africa, there is no such issue on an island isolated in middle of the Pacific Ocean....

The emergency proclamation will give the state access to the Major Disaster Fund, the option of waiving certain laws and regulations to expedite the outbreak response....

U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor refused to block the privatization after discussion on Feb. 9....

Tulsi Gabbard challenges Ige from floor of US House ....

...meanwhile Obama is seeking $1.8B in Zika funding....

This is just the latest example of the Department of Education attempting to shortchange Hawaii’s special needs students....

...in Honolulu, health records indicated that more than a third of outpatients were not evaluated at least four times in the 30 days after being flagged as high risk for suicide, as required by facility policy....

Applications Submitted: This includes a consumer who is on a completed and submitted application ....

The recent rise in Hawaii's homeless population has highlighted the need for a better standard in involuntarily hospitalization.....

Only 4 days remain before final enrollment deadline for 2016 coverage....

... will anti-GMO activists block mosquito eradication efforts? ....

January 31 is the end of open enrollment....

...transferring the operation and management of the HHSC Maui Region health care facilities from the state to Kaiser Permanente....

To have their coverage effectuated, consumers generally need to pay their first month’s health plan premium. This release does not include totals for effectuated enrollments.....

...the new law incorrectly lumps e-cigarettes and lower-risk smokeless tobacco products in with the much more harmful nicotine cigarettes....

A recently published study proposes a pact between the public health community and the vaping community to combat a shared enemy, Big Tobacco....

Med-QUEST Division did not properly plan for or implement the ACA....

...only 24 percent trust that the government will help them....

...the total number of lives covered through 2015 enrollment was 16,803. For the current 2016 open enrollment period preliminary reports indicate enrollments of approximately 12,500 lives....

Hawaii had the Sixth Lowest Rate of Youth Drug Overdose Death Rates, Rate has Doubled in Just Over a Decade....

...Hawaii Scored Five Out of 10 on Key Indicators Related to Preventing, Detecting, Diagnosing and Responding to Outbreaks....

...fruits, vegetables, diary and seafood are more harmful to the environment because these foods have relatively high resource uses and green gas emissions per calorie....

Sixty-three special funds, revolving funds, trust funds, and trust accounts were reviewed....

'Natural' supplement makers are a key funding source for the anti-GMO movement....

...must enroll by 10 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015....

"...homeowner reluctance (many organic farms in the area and general opposition to chemicals) ... likely present unsurmountable obstacles...."

...spending per privately insured beneficiary in the highest spending HRR (Napa, CA) was $5,515.95, more than three times as high as spending in the lowest spending HRR (Honolulu, HI), which spent $1,707.38 per person....

Medicare will lower all its payments to the penalized hospitals by 1 percent over the course of the federal fiscal year, which runs through September 2016....

...our monthly premium is going up over $200 – an increase of 34%. To be able to afford health insurance, we are downgrading our health care plan....

Leading anti-GMO, anti-Vaxxers, and anti-pesticide activists and politicians are supporting the GMO, vaccine, and pesticide application being used to fight dengue.  They are hypocrites and need to be called on it....

Open enrollment began on Nov. 1 and concludes on Jan. 31, 2016....

Much of the alleged fraud focused on the defendants’ claims that their products were made from natural plant extracts.  In truth, as one defendant put it, “lol stuff is completely 100 % synthethic [sic]”....

In Hawaii there are more than 14,000 women veterans; only 4,300 access their benefits and health care through the VA....

The uninsured rate pre-Obamacare was 7.89 percent and has fallen to a current rate of 5.27 percent, with 31,653 persons gaining health insurance....

...the 2015 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card for the first time grades the state’s counties and reveals persistent disparities between communities and among racial and ethnic groups....

As the sheen wears off of subsidized health coverage, and more Americans find they are paying hundreds per month for coverage that provides few benefits....

Our data set ranges from the percentage of adults and children who are overweight and obese to the sugary-beverage consumption among adolescents....

Leonard Gilroy, editor of the widely-read Annual Privatization Report, is an expert in how local, state, and federal governments are bringing competition to public services....

...mass shootings in this country are more a reflection of problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems....