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The health care rights of almost everyone in Hawaii with health insurance are under attack. If you have employer-paid or Medicaid health insurance through Kaiser, HMSA, HMAA, Aloha Care, Evercare or Ohana, then if you get cancer or some other serious disease and your insurance company denies coverage, you have the right to appeal that decision with an independent local hearing, with expert witnesses and attorneys on your side. If S.B. 1274 is passed on March 10, you will lose that right.
Stop the attack on our health care rights
Aloha,
Stop the attack on our health care rights
Overview Letter
Targeting: The Governor of HI, The HI State Senate, and The HI State House
Started by: (your name will appear here)
The health care rights of just about everyone in Hawaii with health insurance are under attack. If you have employer-provided or Medicaid health insurance through Kaiser, HMSA, HMAA, Aloha Care, Evercare or Ohana, then right now if you get cancer and your insurance company denies coverage, you have the right to appeal that decision through an independent local hearing, with expert witnesses and attorneys on your side.
If S.B. 1274 is passed on March 10, you will lose that right.
Stop the attack on our health care rights
Aloha,
My health care rights are under attack and I need your help to stop it.
Right now, if my health insurance company refuses to pay for treatment that my doctor says is necessary, I have the right to appeal that decision at an independent, local hearing. I am entitled to a lawyer, and the insurance company will be required to pay for my lawyer and any expert testimony I need to prove my case.
S.B. 1274 will repeal HRS 432E-6.
HRS 432E-6 gives everyone with HMSA, HMAA, Aloha Care, Kaiser, Evercare or Ohana health insurance, whether paid for by their employer or Medicaid, the legal right to those independent local hearings. If you allow S.B. 1274 to pass, that right will be taken away. Insurance company decisions on life or death treatment will be reviewed somewhere on the mainland depriving me of the right to attend, let alone present expert testimony that could save my life.
You need to put a stop to allowing state legislation to be drafted by companies that can pay their top executives almost $2 million in bonuses for 2010.
You also need to put a stop to allowing life and death health care decisions for our most vulnerable citizens to be made by a company that paid its CEO over $9.4 million in direct compensation in 2009. Why are you allowing valuable federal funding to be spent supporting these outrageous profits?
Please protect our rights, and vote no to S.B. 1274.
[Your name]