Bill Text: HI SB1043 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Health Care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-03-15 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with Representative(s) Okimoto voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Ward voting no (1) and Representative(s) McKelvey, Nakamura, Quinlan, Takumi excused (4). [SB1043 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB1043-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH CARE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Hawaii has long been a leader in advancing reproductive rights, advocating the importance of access to reproductive health care without discrimination, and implementing forward thinking reproductive health care policy. However, gaps in coverage and care still exist, and Hawaii benefits and protections are constantly under attack by a hostile federal administration bent on repealing or undercutting the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and, in particular, access to sexual and reproductive health care benefits and protections.
The legislature finds that access to reproductive health care is critical for the health and economic security of all of Hawaii's people. Research shows that for every one dollar in public spending on reproductive health and family planning services, states save seven dollars in medicaid costs for pregnancy, labor and delivery, and children's health care. Ensuring that Hawaii's people receive comprehensive client-centered and culturally-sensitive sexual and reproductive health care makes good economic sense and improves the overall health of our communities and our State.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to require the auditor to conduct a feasibility study on whether health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations should be mandated to provide health insurance coverage for a comprehensive category of reproductive health services, drugs, devices, products, and procedures.
SECTION 2. (a) The auditor shall conduct a feasibility study on whether health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations should be mandated to provide health insurance coverage for a comprehensive category of reproductive health services, drugs, devices, products, and procedures.
(b) The study shall at minimum:
(1) Assess the social and financial effects of mandating coverage;
(2) Identify the specific health services, diseases, and providers that are to be covered;
(3) Identify the extent of the coverage;
(4) Identify the target groups that are covered;
(5) Identify the limits on utilization, if any; and
(6) Identify the standards of care.
(c) As part of the study under subsection (a), the auditor may request input from appropriate agencies and the private sector stakeholders as it deems appropriate.
(d) The auditor shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2020.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on March 15, 2094.
Report Title:
Health Insurance; Auditor; Study
Description:
Requires the Auditor to conduct a study on whether health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations should provide health insurance coverage for a comprehensive category of reproductive health services, drugs, devices, products, and procedures. (SB1043 HD1)
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