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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 |
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"Oxyelite Pro" Dietary Supplement Linked to Death, Liver Failure
By News Release @ 7:51 PM :: 5342 Views :: Health Care
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Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) is alerting local retailers and requesting the voluntary removal from sale of the product OxyElite Pro pending an ongoing investigation of cases of liver failure and acute hepatitis....
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 |
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Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 4835 Views :: National News, Health Care
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President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive....
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013 |
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Hawaii Drug Overdose Deaths Soaring -- Now Kill More than Auto Accidents
By News Release @ 1:50 AM :: 7190 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement
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Prescription drug related deaths now outnumber those from heroin and cocaine combined, and drug overdose deaths exceed motor vehicle-related deaths....
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Monday, October 7, 2013 |
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Family Doctor: I Want to Take Care of My Patients
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:10 PM :: 3439 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Saturday, October 5, 2013 |
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Secret Chart Reveals HMSA Individual, Family Rates-- $873 Per Person for Non-Smokers
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 11489 Views :: Health Care
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HMSA, Kaiser, and the Hawaii Health Connector continue to refuse to make these rates public, but we've got them here....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Connector Secret Rates Revealed? HMSA Premium Jumps 44%
By Andrew Walden @ 11:59 PM :: 6448 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Connector: Six Legislative Committees to Discuss ‘Concerns’
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 4883 Views :: Health Care
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The Insurance Commissioner will discuss concerns regarding new insurance requirements of the ACA and its impact on rates and populations groups ....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Hawaii residents, lawmakers frustrated with health connector glitches
By Malia Zimmerman @ 3:25 PM :: 3871 Views :: Health Care
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Hawaii lawmakers plan a briefing Wednesday to look into problems related to the Hawaii Health Connector services....
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Hawaii Health Connector Claims 1,181 Obamacare Applications
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 4580 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
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Shutdown: HRP Chairman Calls for Senate to Act
By David S Chang @ 7:44 PM :: 6255 Views :: National News, Health Care, Republican Party
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The House has continually been reaching out to the Senate Democrats and President Obama to pass a resolution to ensure everyone receives equal treatment....
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 |
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The Story Behind the Government Shutdown
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:18 PM :: 5149 Views :: National News, Health Care
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Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare....
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Monday, September 30, 2013 |
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Will Congress Stop Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:13 PM :: 4919 Views :: Health Care
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Over the weekend, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to delay the unpopular law’s implementation by one year....
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Friday, September 27, 2013 |
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5 Ways Obamacare Could Impact You in 5 Days
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 3567 Views :: Health Care
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Today, Senators face a choice on the fate of Obamacare....
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Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
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DCCA Report: Obamacare Will Add 50% to Cost of Hawaii Health Insurance by 2014
By Selected News Articles @ 9:31 PM :: 5813 Views :: Health Care
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The Oliver Wyman consultants expect individual premiums to average $346 in Hawaii in 2014, up from an average of $231 today....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
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Sen. Ted Cruz: Standing Against Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:36 PM :: 3899 Views :: Health Care
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Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants to use procedural tricks to strip the House-passed bill of the provision that would defund Obamacare....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
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Hawaii insurance firms launch campaign to counter misperceptions about Obamacare
By Malia Zimmerman @ 12:10 PM :: 4192 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
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Hawaii GOP Takes on Obamacare: "Make DC Listen"
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 4185 Views :: Health Care
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"...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...."
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
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UH Med School Releases Hawaiian-Pacific Health Study
By News Release @ 8:16 PM :: 4664 Views :: Health Care
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“Assessment & Priorities for Health and Well-Being of Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Peoples.”
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
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This Fight Is for You
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:00 PM :: 4325 Views :: Health Care
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The Heritage Foundation has been talking about defunding Obamacare for some time now, and people may be wondering why....
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Saturday, September 21, 2013 |
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Sex, drugs and Obamacare: Questions get personal, with no privacy guarantee
By Selected News Articles @ 9:50 PM :: 4843 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Obamacare Plans: Four Things the Health Connector Isn’t Telling You
By Andrew Walden @ 10:07 PM :: 6336 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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- Deductibles
- Family rates
- Smokers' rates
- What's not covered
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Hawaii Scores 'C' for Jail Diversion of Mentally Ill
By News Release @ 2:29 PM :: 9181 Views :: Health Care, Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment
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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....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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The Obamacare Scams Are Already Starting
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:50 PM :: 3571 Views :: Health Care
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there are already numerous reports of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of people’s confusion about ObamaCare....
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Friday, September 20, 2013 |
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Navy Yard Shooting: Failure of Mental Health Care System
By Selected News Articles @ 1:25 PM :: 8843 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness, Judiciary, Justice Reinvestment
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Approximately half of mass shootings are caused by individuals with untreated severe mental illness....
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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NCQA: Kaiser Hawaii Ranks 25th in Nation
By News Release @ 10:00 PM :: 5220 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...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....
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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HI makes progress on ACA, but one lawmaker isn’t celebrating
By Malia Zimmerman @ 8:27 PM :: 3940 Views :: Health Care
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“As now confirmed by proponents, the ultimate goal is government, single payer health coverage...."
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Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
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Obamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate Loses in Another Court
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:04 PM :: 4381 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care
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This week, yet another district court halted the Obama Administration from forcing its anti-conscience mandate to provide coverage for abortifacients....
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
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It’s Time to Defund Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:21 PM :: 3738 Views :: Health Care
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Let’s face it: Obamacare was a mistake. It’s time for Washington to acknowledge the problem and defund Obamacare....
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
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Monday, September 16, 2013 |
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Monday, September 16, 2013 |
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Will Unions Want to Repeal Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:23 PM :: 4577 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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In a typical Friday afternoon “news dump,” the Treasury Department announced it could not grant unions’ request for another special Obamacare break....
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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A Real Vote to Defund Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:49 PM :: 3578 Views :: Health Care
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Congress can vote on something and that vote won’t mean a thing....
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Friday, September 13, 2013 |
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AFL-CIO: Obamacare Fundamentally Unfair to Union Workers
By News Release @ 12:45 AM :: 8703 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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...without changes to the way the ACA is implemented, there are likely to be "unintended consequences" that will hurt workers' health care coverage....
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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HMSA 'Dumping' Thousands of Policies, Blames Obamacare
By Andrew Walden @ 8:07 PM :: 9997 Views :: Health Care
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"The Affordable Care Act...is bringing many changes.... Your plan is among those that won’t meet ACA requirements."
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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Why This Doctor Fears Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:59 AM :: 3470 Views :: Health Care
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Unfortunately, everything Dr. Shepherd loves about his job is now at risk....
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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Oversight of Home-Community Based Services Working Group to Meet
By News Release @ 12:30 AM :: 4050 Views :: Health Care
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DATE: Monday, September 30, 2013
TIME: 1:30 pm
PLACE: Conference Room 329, State Capitol
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Monday, September 9, 2013 |
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When Obamacare 'Navigators' Ask If You're Qualified, You Should Ask Them About Identity Theft
By Selected News Articles @ 7:40 PM :: 4087 Views :: Health Care
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Starting October 1, armies of “Navigators” will begin asking Americans very personal questions....
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Monday, September 9, 2013 |
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10 Ways Obamacare Isn’t Working
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:12 AM :: 3625 Views :: Health Care
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...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....
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Friday, September 6, 2013 |
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HHSC: We Can Only Guess at the Cost of Procedures
By Selected News Articles @ 4:30 AM :: 4647 Views :: Health Care
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...they face both dwindling reimbursements and payments increasingly tied to outcomes....
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
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Planned Parenthood Uses Tax Dollars From Obamacare to Push Sex Ed on Hawaii Kids
By Selected News Articles @ 8:59 PM :: 8644 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care, Higher Education
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The Hawaii Youth Services Network and the University of Hawaii received almost two million dollars from ... Obamacare—to develop, replicate, and implement “comprehensive sex education” in Hawaii schools....
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013 |
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IRS Finalizes Penalty for ObamaCare Mandate
By NCPA @ 12:57 PM :: 3586 Views :: Health Care
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The regulation from the IRS formally codifies the fine charged to people without insurance....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 |
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State Paying Xerox $54M to Check Obamacare EHR Fraud
By News Release @ 2:46 PM :: 4153 Views :: Health Care
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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....
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 |
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Countdown to Obamacare Exchanges
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:35 PM :: 3287 Views :: Health Care
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In just 27 days, the Obamacare exchanges are scheduled to open....
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Monday, September 2, 2013 |
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FULL TEXT: ILWU Quits AFL-CIO Over Obamacare, Union Raids
By News Release @ 12:40 PM :: 6471 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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IRONY: The ILWU is quitting AFL-CIO in part due to the signature achievement of a President whose teenage political lessons were learned from Frank Marshall Davis, formerly a columnist at the ILWU-owned Honolulu Record, which was printed back in the days when the ILWU was "too red" to be in the AFL-CIO....
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Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
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Need a Job? State Will Hire You to Sell Obamacare
By News Release @ 9:17 PM :: 4082 Views :: Health Care
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If hired, feel free to send Hawai'i Free Press stories about your adventures as a state-funded insurance salesperson....
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
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Obamacare Quiz for Employers
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:51 AM :: 5282 Views :: Economy, Health Care
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“Obamacare will impose new health coverage costs, the employer mandate, compliance regulations, and new taxes on all businesses.”
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Monday, August 26, 2013 |
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Should We Delay or Defund Obamacare?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:34 PM :: 3108 Views :: Health Care
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Obamacare is devastating policy for America....
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
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When You Can’t Actually Keep Your Health Care Plan
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:27 PM :: 4043 Views :: Health Care
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UPS yesterday announced it is dropping coverage for spouses of employees....
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
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Study: Obesity Soaring in State, but Hawaii Ranks 47th
By News Release @ 1:41 AM :: 4941 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...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....
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