Hawaii ending universal child health care:
HONOLULU – Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families
were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.
"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."
So, you give stuff away and are shocked that people would prefer not to pay for it?
1 comment:
It's never for free, and those folks would have to pay for it, sooner or later, and teh services would be worse than privatized child services.
Trust me, a parent/taxpayer from Canada.
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