After just seven months.
Why? They can't afford it!
That money has to come from somewhere, and unlike the Feds, Hawaii doesn't print its own $$.
"People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free," said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. "I don't believe that was the intent of the program."
I'm sure that wasn't the intent of the program, but gub'mint rarely thinks through unintended consequences due to human nature.
Unintended consequences due to human nature often encumber gub'mint handouts. Call it the Great Society malaise. Witness the last 40 years in the face of massive federal handouts and a huge, bloated bureaucracy to sustain it. Civic organizations, neighborhood associations, and church charity & relevance have all atrophied. They've been replaced by a leach mentality of 'gimme my gub'mint check. I'm entitled.'
And the money folks once had to provide for themselves and their neighbors now supports the gargantuan federal bureaucracy. Unintended consequences - and the politicians love the power.