Half a Century of Health Care
March 3, 2010 8:15 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays Half a Century of Health Care |
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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.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 3rd
- 1634: Samuel Cole’s Inn opens to become the first tavern in Boston
- 1817: Alabama becomes a territory
- 1820: The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress
- 1842: The first U.S. child labor law, regulating working hours, is passed (MA)
- 1845: Florida becomes the 27th state
- 1849: Minnesota becomes a territory
- 1861: Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
- 1863: Idaho becomes a territory
- 1879: Geological Survey Director is authorized in the U.S. Deptartment of the Interior
- 1885: American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) is incorporated
- 1885: The first U.S. state establishes a permanent forest commission (CA)
- 1923: Time magazine publishes its first issue
- 1966: The rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
- 1978: Charles Chaplin’s remains are stolen in Switzerland
- 1989: Reagan aide Robert McFarlane is sentenced to a $20,000 fine and 2 years of probation for his part in the Iran-Contra scandal
- 1991: Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King – the incident is captured on amateur video
- 2002: Swiss voters approve a referendum for Switzerland to join the United Nations
- 2006 Former Republican Congressman Randy “Duke” Cunningham of California was sentenced by a federal judge to more than eight years in prison for corruption.
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 3rd
- 1838: George W Hill, astronomer
- 1847: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- 1853: Vincent Van Gogh, painter
- 1877: Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor
- 1911: Jean Harlow, actress
- 1921: Allen Ginsberg, beat generation poet
- 1923: Doc Watson, bluegrass singer, musician
- 1933: Princess Lee Radziwell Ross, (Jackie O’s sister)
- 1953: Dave Amato, rocker
- 1962: Jackie Joyner-Kersee, heptathele
- 1970: Julie Bowen, actress
- 1972: Brett Warren, country singer
- 1982: Jessica Biel , actress
DIED ON THIS DAY — March 3rd
- 1703: Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
- 1959: Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
- 1961: Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
- 1983: Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
- 1987: Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)
- 1991: Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
- 1993: Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)
- 1998: Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
- 2003: Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
