Im sorry I forgot to link the source in the first thread I made about this. Ive added it now.
This is one of the most absurd things Ive ever seen. Hawaii wants to classify homelessness as a medical condition now. Homelessness is not a medical condition, its a condition born from laziness or poor life decisions.
I know they have to have an alternative reason for doing this and I believe its because there are several large cities in the US that give free one way plane tickets to homeless people to leave their state and most go to Hawaii because its always warm so they have a huge problem with it in Hawaii. By classifying it as a medical condition they can probably get the homeless on disability or something which will cause taxes to go up even more.
The most ludicrous part about the whole thing is by classifying it as a medical condition, health insurers and medicaid will have to pay for "Prescription housing"
http://www.fox30jax.com/news/hawaii-...tion/488251799
As an emergency room doctor, Hawaii Sen. Josh Green sees homeless patients suffering from diabetes, mental health problems and an array of medical issues that are more difficult to manage when they are homeless or do not have permanent housing.
That's why Green says he wants homelessness classified under Hawaii state law as a medical condition.
If homelessness is a disease, he reasons, then doctors should be able to write prescriptions for the cure: Housing.
"It is paradigm shift for sure, but the single best thing we can do today is to allow physicians and health care providers in general to write prescriptions for housing," Green said.
Green last week introduced a bill in the Hawaii Legislature to classify chronic homelessness as a medical condition and require insurance companies to cover treatment of the condition.
But if a doctor wrote a prescription for six months of housing, where would the patient fill the prescription?
That's where Green wants Medicaid to step in.
He wants to redirect some of Hawaii's $2 billion annual Medicaid budget to pay for housing.