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ntsi~ya Page 7 of 16 "State healthcare insurance planning and financing authority" means the administrator of the universal single-payer healthcare insurance system for the state of Hawaii. "Single-payer universal healthcare insurance system" means covering all permanent residents of the State of Hawaii. "Universal" means healthcare for all of Hawaii's permanent residents. "Universal healthcare provision fund" means the fund used by the authority to collect funds and pay out claims, and to administer an emergencies and demographic changes contingencies reserve fund; and a retraining fund for health field employees affected by the transition to the single-payer universal healthcare insurance system. § -2 Single-payer universal healthcare insurance system; established. (a) There is established the single-payer universal healthcare insurance system to provide the same uniformly high- quality level of "medically necessary" healthcare to all Hawaii's permanent residents. Private healthcare insurers are prohibited from duplicating the coverages provided by the single-payer universal healthcare insurance system. § -3 Twenty functional concepts; established. Hawaii state- funded single-payer universal healthcare insurance system is based upon twenty functional concepts as follows: (1) "Universal" the State of Hawaii single-payer universal healthcare insurance system finances "healthcare-for-all" which means quality healthcare is "universally available" on a "prepaid" basis to permanent residents; (2) "Prepaid" - Hawaii's state-funded single-payer healthcare- for-all insurance system that provides medically-necessary http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2007/Bills/HB1598_.htm 1/9/2008