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From: Com Harden
Subject: Tropicare: Res. 514-518 Cty Cncl Mar 14
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2018 11:52:49 AM 7
comments on Tropicare: Resolutions 514 through 518
for Hawai' i County Council, 9 AM Wednesday, March 14, 2018, Hilo chambers
from Cory Harden, Hilo 3 3 3 corynagmail.com
Thank you to Council members supporting better health care. But could the $17,000 allocated
by these resolutions be put to better use?
Tropicare is not the best way to deliver medical care. It takes a tremendous amount of time,
energy, and money to set up medical services, then turn around and take them all down again
after a few days.
Tropicare is no help to people who can't drop everything to come on the planned days.
I don't know if Tropicare does any followup, and I suspect many patients can't afford to
follow up with a local doctor. What happens to patients who have teeth pulled, then have
complications?
To get more bang for your buck, consider funding airfare for low-income people to see
specialists in Honolulu.
And consider funding existing low-income health programs that are available more than once
a year and do provide followup.
Military medical people might get better training by, assisting ongoing programs—though it
would generate less publicity buzz than Tropicare.
Mahalo.
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