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How to Stop a Socialist Nightmare
Flopping Aces — ... Drop the free market and go all out for free handouts. The citizens of Hawaii taught a lesson to state legislators on economics 101. Hawaii ends it’s universal healthcare plan for children after 7 months: ...

Universal Child Health Care Fails In Hawaii
RedState: Conservative News and Community — From The Department of Entirely Predictable Consequences Don't say we didn't warn you if Obama gets elected and tries the same sort of thing: 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 ...

POLITICS: Department of Entirely Predictable Consequences
Baseball Crank — Don't say we didn't warn you if Obama gets elected and tries the same sort of thing: 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 ...

The sound of MSM silence (glug-glug)
Wizbang — ... end supplemental Medicare HMO programs and force seniors back into Medicare-only health coverage. Ironically, the working class Americans that SCHIP is supposed to help will end up footing most of the bill for it. Yet in the Stimulus Bill, there is a $75 million line item for smoking cessation programs. Why are we spending $75 million to erase the primary source of revenue for children's health care? Democrats? Media? Hello ... anyone? Last October, the State of Hawaii was forced to suspend its universal children's health care program because of, well, freeloading : "People ...

Comment on Free-Marketers Should Support the Public Option by Shoothouse Barbie
Comments for Lean Left — ... and smugness in all the YES WE CAN-ing on this program, and, well, to be crude, everyone has sand in their vaginas over it now. But they’re also not wrong in their anticipation that keeping this program afloat will be a major budget issue in a few years. The inefficiency of the public plan will become evident, I wager ( I bet you a dollar and beer). Just like it has in MA, and like the children’s plan in Hawaii. I have an article about it somewhere…ah, got it: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440561,00.html I would like to think ...

Fox "Hannity" tonight - "Hawaii's Universal Health Plan"
Wizbang — ... care. It was called "Keiki Care" (Keiki means Child in Native Hawaiian) and it was stopped seven short months after it began due to budgetary concerns. Republican Gov. Linda Lingle had signed it into law, but they soon found a whopping majority of those who wanted free health care already had been insured! You don't hear the President talk about "Keiki Care" in his speeches. So our mission was simple: talk everyone in Hawaii and find out what happened in the Aloha State. Here's more on last year's cancellation of Keiki Care : Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget ...

CNN's Jim Acosta Spotlights Criticism of ObamaCare - From the Left
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Free market experts have criticized public option arguing that it would supplant private insurance altogether due to an uneven playing field. When Hawaii adopted a universal health care program for children called Keiki Care, "people who were already able to afford healthcare began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," according to Dr. Kenny Fink. ...