HRS §431N-3
State health insurance program
This section creates a state health insurance program within the Department of Health. Its goals are to help certain uninsured people pay for health care, push those who can afford it to buy their own insurance, and make sure the program stays affordable. The program is paid for by money the Legislature gives to the Department.
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The statute, as written — State health insurance program established
There is established within the department of health the state health insurance program whose goals shall be to: (1) Subsidize health care coverage for gap group individuals, including but not necessarily limited to outpatient primary and preventive care; (2) Encourage the uninsured who can afford to participate in existing health plans to seek that coverage; (3) Discourage individuals who are already adequately insured from seeking benefits under the state health insurance program; (4) Assure that those persons who have the ability to pay for all or part of their coverage be appropriately assessed by the contractors on a sliding fee scale basis; and (5) Ensure that the state health insurance program is affordable to gap group individuals. The program shall be funded by legislative appropriations made to the department of health.
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