The enactment of health care reform legislation will advance access to affordable, quality care for Pacific Islander communities. These advancements lay the groundwork for good health, but future efforts must further these improvements to ensure true, effective reform for low- income, minority populations like ours.
Legislative Tri-Caucus Briefing
For the benefit of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and all Americans, we must reform our health care system and to remove barriers to getting needed health care. As Congress continues its work on health reform, one of the options it is considering is creating a public health insurance plan that would compete with…
Small businesses are far less likely to provide health insurance for their workers than larger businesses, because for higher health care costs. Small businesses pay almost 20 percent more per worker than large firms for the same health insurance policy. Many of these higher costs are passed on to employees in the form of lower…
