Hawaii Health Insurance Insider

State Hospitals in Financial Trouble

Full Story at Honolulu Advertiser

HHI4U BOSS Summary: June 29th, 2008: Basically Hawai’i Health Systems Corp.which runs a bunch of state hospitals told law makers that there would be service cuts and layoffs because of their financial woes. So lawmakers and Linda Lingle came to the rescue and agreed to 14 MILLLION DOLLARS in emergency spending to help the company make it thru the fiscal year. Sounds like lingle was trying to make ammends for where she fell short with Aloha Airlines. Anyway, some officials blame Health Insurance like HMSA and Medicare for not raising the amount of reinburstments the network gets back from them.