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HMA 2008 Legislative Report

We invite you to share your experiences with Hawaii's access to medical care crisis.

      
 
 
 

 
Medical Liability Reform - a Critical Piece of the Puzzle

Hawaii
's residents are facing a shortage of physicians across the state.
Physicians are leaving Hawaii, retiring early, or no longer providing high-risk, but life-saving treatment due in large part to high medical malpractice insurance premiums and the risk of being sued, low reimbursements, and the high cost of living.

States such as Texas, California, Alaska, Idaho and others have enacted common-sense "Medical Liability Reform" that establishes reasonable limits on non-economic damages in medical malpractice suits and gives a greater share of settlement money to injured patients instead of lawyers. Medical liability reform has been proven to lower malpractice insurance premiums, and is one of the critical solutions that will help Hawaii retain and attract a physician workforce.
 
Learn more about how medical liability reform can help Hawaii's patients have physicians available when they are needed: click here
 
 
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Click here to print a copy of HMA's petition for Medical Liability Reform. Collect signatures and make a difference. Please fax completed petitions to (808) 528-2376 or mail to 1360 S. Beretania St., Suite 200, Honolulu, HI 96814.

Contact Your Legislators and tell them to approve meaningful and comprehensive medical liability reform to address Hawaii's patient access to care crisis.
 
For additional references, please visit:


U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "Addressing the New Health Care Crisis"

American Academy of Actuaries (search: "malpractice")

For more information contact:
Paula Arcena, Executive Director
(808) 536-7702

 

 
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HAMPAC
 
HAMPAC (Hawaii Medical Political Action Committee) is a voluntary, non profit, non partisan organization of physicians and spouses that was founded in 1963 to financially support pro-medicine candidates seeking public office.
 
 
Who is HAMPAC?
Any physician member or their spouse are eligible to join HAMPAC.
 
What does HAMPAC do?
HAMPAC makes direct contributions to pro-medicine candidates seeking election to the Hawaii State Legislature. Since a portion of HAMPAC's membership dues are shared with the American Medical Association's Political Action Committee (AMPAC), joining HAMPAC automatically makes you a member of AMPAC at the federal level.
 
The Legislature makes decisions that directly impact the way physicians practice medicine. It is critical that organized medicine educate legislators on key health issues. Without a strong presence at the Capitol, physicians are in great jeopardy of losing even more ground to mid-level practitioners, health plan bureaucrats, and third party payers.
 
Your contribution is crucial to helping ensure that medicine's voice is heard at the Legislature. By contributing to HAMPAC, you are helping in the fight to protect your practice and your patients. For more information, please contact Paula Arcena, (808) 536-7702.