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Affordable Care Act plans will be a bit more affordable than expected in 2019, thanks to the state Insurance Division.
The Insurance Division announced Friday that Hawaii Medical Service Association’s average rate change for so-called Obamacare will decrease 0.37 percent from the current rate. HMSA had proposed an increase of 2.72 percent. The rate change for Kaiser Permanente Hawaii: an increase of 12.9 percent, less than half of the proposed 28.6 percent.
The Insurance Division is tasked with setting rates that are not excessive, inadequate or unfairly discriminatory. Here’s hoping that these moderate changes signal stability in premiums for some 32,000 people in Hawaii with ACA plans.
Go online to learn about state lands, and more
First, you’ll have to create a free account to use the new Public Land Trust Information System.
Do that at the site — pltis.hawaii.gov — and bookmark it.
The interactive map portal is a fountain of information — the most data, including any rent that’s paid — that is available for state lands. But click on any parcel, public or private, and you can see who owns it, as well as other details.
You can see your legislative districts and search data far more easily than the old-school way.
It sure took a while to go live — the bill enabling its creation was passed in 2011 — but this was worth the wait.