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In Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente has stopped accepting new Medicaid patients, making it more difficult for those on the government-backed health insurance program to find doctors willing to admit them. In other words, “money is more important to us than your health!”

Kaiser, the state’s largest health maintenance provider and insurer, profits from roughly 31,500 members enrolled in Quest – the state’s version of Medicaid on the islands of Oahu and Maui.

Medicaid is one of Hawaii’s largest government programs, with and annual budget of $2 billion and 345,000 members, but doctors have long complained that Quest doesn’t fully reimburse them for the …read more