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No on SB1274, Saving Hawaii’s Health Care, Insurance Companies To Take More Rights From Citizens

www.facebook.com No on SB1274, Saving Hawaii's Health Care, Insurance Companies To Take More From Citizens SB1274 was deferred by the Comm on Finance so the committee chairs, Ryan Yamane, Gil Keith-Agaran, Marcus Oshiro, and Robt Herkes can work on preserving our rights. The health plans will be lobbying them hard so you need to call them and tell them to strike section 10 of SB1274 which repeals our rights! Do it today! Twelve years ago, the Hawaii legislature passed a law that gives individuals a level playing field against rich and powerful health plans, an effective defense against the types of behavior Michael Moore chronicled in "Sicko." With that law, patients and their families have won the right to have the insurance commissioner order their health plans to pay for emergency heart surgery for a 2 ½ month old infant, emergency bladder surgery for a middle-aged man with a highly aggressive bladder cancer, a bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy for cancer and other diseases, radiation therapy for prostate cancer, various diagnostic tests for cancer, and more. The medical care in all of these cases was prohibitively costly, but life-saving. Health plans are lobbying very hard for SB 1274, which uses Obamacare as an excuse to throw out that law, repealing the consumer protections those patients used to win their cases. On questioning this week by Representatives Cynthia Thielen, Barbara Marumoto, Sylvia Luke, and Gilbert Keith-Agaran, the Abercrombie Administration ...
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