Life after mandatory insurance: Hawaii providers tide a new wave.
While the nation looks to universal access laws as a solution to hospitals' rising costs of caring for the uninsured, laws covering all workers are standard operating procedure in Hawaii. The state's mandatory insurance law was meant to reduce hospitals' indigent-care losses, but losses have continued to mount at some facilities. Despite the overall benefits of the law, Hawaiian hospitals struggle just like their mainland counterparts to survive.
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