Friday, April 21, 2006
Rally Monday to protest Department of Human Services plans to potentially displace 165,000 QUEST families
Message from the Hawaii Coalition For Health:
Please support our Quest families. The DHS is planning to force 165,000 Quest members to choose a health plan in October even if they are happy with the plan and doctor they presently have, and if they don't they will be autoassigned to where the DHS wants to send them. This is a medical outrage which is likely to disrupt the care of thousands of patients, and could even prove dangerous to the health of many seriously ill people. A good doctor/patient relationship is the cornerstone of improving health outcomes, and here the DHS cares not if they destroy such relationships.
Join us in a rally at the state capitol on Monday, 24th at 2:00 pm or call your legislators and complain.
Please call my office [Dr. Arleen Meyers]: 622-2655 if you have questions.
From: Noe Foster [NFoster@alohacarehawaii.org]
Aloha Friends,
We urgently need your help to stop the upheaval of 165,000 QUEST patients. The Department of Human Services is changing the enrollment process that will require ALL QUEST MEMBERS to actively re-choose their QUEST health plan and then at a later time re-choose their primary care physician (PCP) or provider. QUEST members will be notified of this change by mail. Those familiar with this population know the response will be minimal.
As a result, QUEST members who do not actively choose a new health plan and provider will be auto-enrolled into a new plan. Continuality of care will be disrupted as patients, providers and physicians find the majority of QUEST members re-shuffled. Many patients will not learn they have been auto-assigned until they show up at their doctor's office.
We need your urgent help to pressure our legislators to pass HB 2043 SD3, scheduled to be heard Tuesday, April 25, 10:30 a.m., room 229, at the State Capitol to prevent mandatory re-enrollment from happening.
Although 50-plus social service advocates, physicians, and community health centers provided emotional testimony, pleading with legislators to stop this from taking place. The senate version of this bill was successfully passed. However, there is resistance amongst key members of the House.
WE NEED YOU TO VOICE YOUR CONCERN AND URGE OUR LEGISLATORS TO PASS HB 2043 SD3 BY PHONE, EMAIL OR FAX BY MONDAY, APRIL 24:
Representative Alex Sonson, Chair, Human Services Committee
Phone: 586-6520
Fax: 586-6521
E-mail: repsonson@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative Dennis Arakaki, Chair, Health Committee
Phone: 586-6050
Fax: 586-6051
E-mail: reparakaki@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Click here for a fact sheet and excerpts from testimony presented to these legislators on this issue.
COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ARE ALSO HOLDING A RALLY MONDAY, APRIL 24, AT 2 PM AT THE STATE CAPITOL. WE NEED AS MANY SUPPORTERS AS POSSIBLE TO COME OUT TO THIS RALLY SO OUR VOICES ARE HEARD. I URGE YOU TO JOIN US AND RECEIVE A FREE SHIRT.
Please support our Quest families. The DHS is planning to force 165,000 Quest members to choose a health plan in October even if they are happy with the plan and doctor they presently have, and if they don't they will be autoassigned to where the DHS wants to send them. This is a medical outrage which is likely to disrupt the care of thousands of patients, and could even prove dangerous to the health of many seriously ill people. A good doctor/patient relationship is the cornerstone of improving health outcomes, and here the DHS cares not if they destroy such relationships.
Join us in a rally at the state capitol on Monday, 24th at 2:00 pm or call your legislators and complain.
Please call my office [Dr. Arleen Meyers]: 622-2655 if you have questions.
From: Noe Foster [NFoster@alohacarehawaii.org]
Aloha Friends,
We urgently need your help to stop the upheaval of 165,000 QUEST patients. The Department of Human Services is changing the enrollment process that will require ALL QUEST MEMBERS to actively re-choose their QUEST health plan and then at a later time re-choose their primary care physician (PCP) or provider. QUEST members will be notified of this change by mail. Those familiar with this population know the response will be minimal.
As a result, QUEST members who do not actively choose a new health plan and provider will be auto-enrolled into a new plan. Continuality of care will be disrupted as patients, providers and physicians find the majority of QUEST members re-shuffled. Many patients will not learn they have been auto-assigned until they show up at their doctor's office.
We need your urgent help to pressure our legislators to pass HB 2043 SD3, scheduled to be heard Tuesday, April 25, 10:30 a.m., room 229, at the State Capitol to prevent mandatory re-enrollment from happening.
Although 50-plus social service advocates, physicians, and community health centers provided emotional testimony, pleading with legislators to stop this from taking place. The senate version of this bill was successfully passed. However, there is resistance amongst key members of the House.
WE NEED YOU TO VOICE YOUR CONCERN AND URGE OUR LEGISLATORS TO PASS HB 2043 SD3 BY PHONE, EMAIL OR FAX BY MONDAY, APRIL 24:
Representative Alex Sonson, Chair, Human Services Committee
Phone: 586-6520
Fax: 586-6521
E-mail: repsonson@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Representative Dennis Arakaki, Chair, Health Committee
Phone: 586-6050
Fax: 586-6051
E-mail: reparakaki@Capitol.hawaii.gov
Click here for a fact sheet and excerpts from testimony presented to these legislators on this issue.
COMMUNITY ADVOCATES ARE ALSO HOLDING A RALLY MONDAY, APRIL 24, AT 2 PM AT THE STATE CAPITOL. WE NEED AS MANY SUPPORTERS AS POSSIBLE TO COME OUT TO THIS RALLY SO OUR VOICES ARE HEARD. I URGE YOU TO JOIN US AND RECEIVE A FREE SHIRT.
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