Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 1, 1 January 1991 — Enroll by Jan. 7 in state health plan [ARTICLE]

Enroll by Jan. 7 in state health plan

The Department of Health has onee again extended the State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) application period. The deadline whieh would have ended Oct. 31 has been extended to Jan. 7, 1991 due to the overwhelming number of application requests to the SHIP office. Since Oct. 1, SHIP has received more than 2,300 applications with an average of 100 applieations per day during the last 10 days. More than 5,800 people have become members since the start of this program. SHIP provides preventive health insurance to people who are uninsuredand meet certain ineome limits. "We have targeted imnrigrant and other hard to reach populations for this enrollment period," s?,id John C. Lewin, director of health, "and it is paying off. We've gotten great support from the ethnic community leaders." Newborns, newly adopted children, newly hanai children and new spouses of current SHIP enrollees and disenrolled Medicaid clients may apply for enrollment anytime, even after the deadline.