Prepaid Health Care In Hawaii

Provides information about Hawaii's experiences on topics central to the current debate on national health care reform. Describes Hawaii's experience with providing access to health insurance & health services, its experience with health care costs, & the effects of Hawaii's system on the state's small businesses & health care providers. 15 charts & tables.

Health Care Hawaii Style: Model for the Nation by Hawaiian physician and professor of Community Health, Frank L. Tabrah, chronicles how the Hawaiian people have developed and sustained a universal medical care system that should be a model for the rest of the United States.

Reviews state initiatives to expand access to health insurance and control rising health care costs. Describes comprehensive plans to provide universal access to coverage, programs to extend access to specific groups, and efforts to control costs by reforming payment mechanisms. Maps and graphs.