STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2502

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2084

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2084, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit an insurer from requiring a doctor's referral for annual covered screening mammograms for insureds over the age of forty.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Association of Health Plans and the American Cancer Society. 

 

     Your Committee finds that the lives of over one thousand women in the State are lost each year to breast cancer.  Your Committee further finds that the early detection of breast cancer is critical to the success of treatment efforts and that consequently, screening mammograms should be made as accessible as possible.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2084, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair