Recently released results show that 7.8% of Hawaii residents lack health insurance. Nationally, the number of uninsured Americans has swelled to 46.3 Million according to the same report.
Hawaii has performed better than most other states when it comes to health insurance coverage, because of Hawaii’s passage of the 1974 Prepaid Health Care Act that requires employers to provide health care coverage for employees who work at least 20 hours a week for four consecutive weeks. As a result of this legislation, Hawaii has the country’s second highest coverage rate, trailing only Massachusetts.
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