Health Care

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....

...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....