03/17/2024
Aloha Colleagues & friends in Hawai'i (even those who have relocated!) please take a few minutes to testify online to support the removal of the General Excise Tax from medical care.
This measure would remove the GET from primary care, but we are urging the legislature to remove the GET from ALL MEDICAL CARE INCLUDING DENTISTS as we are beyond crisis levels in healthcare- with a severe lack of ALL providers and specialists especially on the neighbor islands. There are growing shortages of physicians nation wide, Hawai'i MUST STOP being one of the only states to tax medical care if we are to have any hope of improving access.
Healthcare colleagues: please consider testifying regarding your insight into our current state/affairs and choices you have had to make on WHERE (and HOW) to practice due to issues like taxing our professional services compounded by challenges in reimbursements.
Local friends, family, and community leaders: please testify in support and in support of amending the measure to include all medical care providers, physicians, and dentists. Please consider Including personal stories of how lack of access to care has hurt you and your family as many of you have shared on- and off-line.
It takes just a few minutes to register, and just a few minutes more to submit testimony. Thank you in advance.
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1675&year=2024
Please testify and please share this post, we have to have all testimony submitted by 10am Tuesday March 19th, and if you have time consider testifying via zoom on March 20th.
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