Politics

21,000 Hawaiians to Lose Medicaid Coverage Due to Obamacare

The purported solution to the uninsured is creating more of them

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Roughly 21,000 people in Hawaii who were previously covered under Medicaid will need to buy their own health insurance once President Barack Obama's sweeping federal health care overhaul takes effect next year, the chief executive of the Hawaii Primary Care Association told a state Senate committee today.