Bill Text: HI SB2091 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health Care; Advisory Council
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-16 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to CPN. [SB2091 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2091-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2252
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2091
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2091 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the maximum membership of the Prepaid Health Care Advisory Council to nine members and include representatives of health care organizations on the Prepaid Health Care Advisory Council to provide their perspectives regarding health plan benefits.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Association, The Queen's Health Systems, Health Care Association of Hawaii, and one individual.
Your Committee finds that including representation from health care organizations would give the Prepaid Health Care Advisory Council valuable perspectives on the design of health plan benefits. Members representing health care organizations may add the expertise needed to create value-based insurance benefits that could improve the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases and ultimately reduce Hawaii's health care costs.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2091 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair |
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