National health reform bills would exempt Hawaii

[Devany]

Bottom line is there are many people living on this island (even more all over America) with no health insurance, refused for a variety of reasons by the ridiculously small variety of carriers, people who moved here, with health insurance from the mainland and then discovered that they could not qualify for insurance with Hawaii's only two carriers (the other carrier is minor.) This is also the case of the unemployed, of which we are gaining in numbers.

It is also true there are a very large amount of medicaid patients on this island and of course lots of people on medicare too. These people along with the veterans and disabled are already getting government health care and that system is working just fine. It only takes one serious illness to bankrupt a family and the community pays for that and health costs rise. People are not getting tests and preventative medications. This is what is causing the rip in our health system.

I personally do not want the government option, unless it is my only option, but I do want to be able to buy insurance coverage. I can but my husband who is 3 years from medicare eligibility cannot and he is a healthy man who simply could not get coverage because of a medication he took 6 months ago. That in my book is absurd.

The proposed bill encourages competition and provides overall availability to consumers in every stage of life and every economic situation.

That all sounds fair and very much needed to me.

No it is not a matter of dollars, it is a matter of human compassion, that people can at least be able to buy affordable health insurance.

Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

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