Free Maui Health Care Plan

Published: April 2024

The Hawai‘i Health Access Program (HHAP), a no-cost health care plan completely underwritten by Kaiser Permanente, was introduced in late 2023 to help Maui residents who were unable to get any other health coverage. 

“HHAP members pay no monthly premium or out-of-pocket costs for most covered services at Kaiser Permanente facilities,” says Ailene Schwartzlow, medical social worker for Kaiser Permanente. “The program was helpful to our undocumented members in our community.” Roots Reborn Lahaina, a Maui based community hub for immigrants impacted by the fires, found a high success rate for all of its applications to the program, and was able to enroll 127 individuals. “It’s an incredible program and we knew that the folks that we serve, specifically our undocumented community, would be eligible,” says Veronica Mendoza Jachowski, co-founder and executive director for Roots Reborn Lahaina.

“A lot of those folks that got health insurance, they were getting health coverage for the first time,” Jachowski says. “The impact that it’s having and will have, we can’t even begin to quantify.”

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