Half a Century of Health Care
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Japanese Girls Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — La’au: Medicine PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Maracin: Medicine HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“The body enjoys health when the stomach is well filled.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Who lacks health lacks everything.” (French)
TODAY: President Barack Obama lays out his plan to finally pass health care/insurance reform by Easter. Different versions of HCR bills have already passed both houses of congress – in the Senate, by a super-majority 60 votes. Democrats need only reconcile the two bills. The simplest way is for the House to pass the Senate version, and have the Senate make added revisions with a simple majority vote. Sounds simple enough, huh? More > March 3, 1958: A little more than a year before Hawaii becomes a state, Henry Kaiser takes the first step to putting his long-talked-about medical insurance plan into operation in the Hawaiian Islands. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. files papers with the Hawaiian Territorial Treasurer’s Office as a foreign corporation to do business on Oahu and Maui, Hawaii’s two most populous islands. At the time, the Kaiser plan, named after its founder Henry Kaiser, serves half a million people on the West Coast. Today, Kaiser is the largest (in terms of people served) medical health care plan serving Hawaii residents. Hawaii law requires employers to provide health insurance for all employees working more than 20 hours a week.
