Hawaii Ending Universal Child Health Care After 7 Months Because Families Were Dropping Private Coverage So Their Children Would Be Eligible For The Subsidized Plan | Right Voices

Hawaii Ending Universal Child Health Care After 7 Months Because Families Were Dropping Private Coverage So Their Children Would Be Eligible For The Subsidized Plan

Posted by Pam on 10/17/2008

“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,” said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. “I don’t believe that was the intent of the program.”

Imagine that.Â The program lasted 7 whole months.Â Â I was shocked, shocked I tell you to read that people were dropping the private healthcare in order to get it for “free”!Â =))

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Lets go back one year to SCHIP and the Frost family..Here are some previous posts to refresh your memory.Â Hawaii just proved the Republicans point in that battle:

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