Has anyone given thought as to why the Hospital system is losing money?  It appears as though everyone is willing to accept that pay and benefit cuts to healthcare workers is the answer to mismanagement.  The State government has broken its labor contract with the healthcare workers union; is that OK?  Maui Health Systems (Kaiser) is offering pay and benefit cuts; is that how you maintain and attract a professional work force?  Did you consider that pay and benefit cuts hurts the local business economy; employees have less money to spend on goods and services causing small family businesses to suffer.  State healthcare workers are prohibited from striking, now with privatization, they can strike; do you realize what this means if the only hospital on Maui closes?  If you find it beneficial to privatize the Hospital then why not the Police and Fire Department?  The working class should not fight each other over wage reductions, but rather, ask why has it come to this?