Health Care

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....

...the number one health plan in the state and among the top 25 health plans in the nation, according to the National Committee for Quality Assurance....

“As now confirmed by proponents, the ultimate goal is government, single payer health coverage...."

This week, yet another district court halted the Obama Administration from forcing its anti-conscience mandate to provide coverage for abortifacients....

Let’s face it: Obamacare was a mistake. It’s time for Washington to acknowledge the problem and defund Obamacare....

The Hawaii Health Connector Customer Support Center is now open....

Health Care Subsidy

In a typical Friday afternoon “news dump,” the Treasury Department announced it could not grant unions’ request for another special Obamacare break....

Congress can vote on something and that vote won’t mean a thing....

...without changes to the way the ACA is implemented, there are likely to be "unintended consequences" that will hurt workers' health care coverage....

"The Affordable Care Act...is bringing many changes.... Your plan is among those that won’t meet ACA requirements."

Unfortunately, everything Dr. Shepherd loves about his job is now at risk....

Starting October 1, armies of “Navigators” will begin asking Americans very personal questions....

...the Administration keeps trying to “fix” it—to no avail. It has delayed parts of the law, ignored others, and carved out exemptions for its political allies....

...they face both dwindling reimbursements and payments increasingly tied to outcomes....

The regulation from the IRS formally codifies the fine charged to people without insurance....

Providers apply for the incentives using a secure, web-based tool from Xerox to show that they have implemented and used EHRs under federal guidelines....

In just 27 days, the Obamacare exchanges are scheduled to open....

If hired, feel free to send Hawai'i Free Press stories about your adventures as a state-funded insurance salesperson....

Obamacare is devastating policy for America....

UPS yesterday announced it is dropping coverage for spouses of employees....

...adult obesity in Hawaii has increased nearly three times from that it was a little over 20 years ago. In the past year alone, obesity has risen more than seven percent....

Open enrollment for Hawai‘i residents is October of this year....

Congress defunds mandatory spending on appropriations bills every year....

57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law....

ObamaCare's new insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid represent the building blocks....

...the case for defunding Obamacare....

the prevalence of preschool obesity ranged from 9.2% to 17.9%....

Just as in Hawaii, the Obamacare Exchanges in other states are not attracting insurance competitors....

...results of a feasibility study on the proposed adolescent residential drug treatment and healing facility are now available online....

When Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges open, your data could be exposed to shysters and hackers, thanks to serious vulnerabilities in the system....

Congress is well on its way to solving its Obamacare problem—for Members of Congress and their staffs, that is....