Hawaii Lawmakers Kill Bill To Improve Care At Veterans And Nursing Homes - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Lawmakers Kill Bill To Improve Care At Veterans And Nursing Homes
Health care administrators argued the bill, drafted in response to the deadly outbreak last year at a Hilo facility, could make health care slower. Reading time: 2 minutes.
State senators have decided to indefinitely defer a bill that would have added several new requirements on state veterans homes and nursing homes after dozens testified that the bill mostly asked them to make reforms already in place and potentially created new problems in the long term.
skeptics says that democrats want to watch the republicans flounder. so prove them wrong. tell us where the democrats are willing to work and negotiate with the republicans. what issue exactly are you willing to come to the table for? i think that is a really important question. what we have seen is that the republicans have come forward not with a way to assure people have lower health care costs or that we have a market that works, but with plans to give a tax break away, to cut medicaid and take health care away from many americans with disabilities, kids with disabilities, senior citizens, and a system that would not work. we want them to say we re not going donna path anymore. we won t cut medicaid dramatically, we will not give tax breaks away, we will not work to make barack obama c.a.r.e. fail. we want to work with you to provide health care assurance for all americans that they will have health care when they need it, that it s affordable and quality and provides what their
could support a bill brought by president trump on health care. that seemed to be the bottom line of what you were saying. no, yeah, but you got to take the bottom line in context. what the president was saying is, if you can do it better than we ve done, if you can provide greater access, greater health care assurance to people, greater quality and bring costs down, then, yes, we ll support that. we haven t seen anything, however, either from president trump or from the congress, or any of the republicans, that we think does that. so, yes, president obama said that, and we agree with that, and we told president trump that we agreed with. that but we haven t seen anything does it make it easier for you, now that you know that president obama, in that private letter to donald trump said, if you can do this, i will support it, does that make you more willing to listen to president trump? to try to work with him on this issue, since president obama,