“I was downsized from my company and unable to make the COBRA payments to continue healthcare coverage. I did not realize that my inherited diabetes resulting in artery disease would prevent me from buying health insurance. While searching for a job I had to have quadruple bypass surgery.
“The result was filing bankruptcy to wipe [...]
The federal government approved an Indiana state-subsidized program that will allow health insurance to be extended to about 130,000 uninsured state residents, the AP/Indianapolis Starreports. The program will be partially funded by an increase in thestate cigarette tax, which is expected to generate $140 millionannually, as well as federal matching funds. Over the next five [...]
HHS on Friday announced the approval of a Medicaidwaiver in Indianathat will permit the state to enroll low-income residents in astate-subsidized, high-deductible health care that includes provisions similarto health savings accounts, CQ HealthBeat reports (CQ HealthBeat,12/14). To qualify, residents’ incomes must be less than 200% of the federalpoverty level, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports.
Beneficiaries will make [...]
Nearly nine people die each week in Indiana because they don’t have affordable health insurance coverage, says a new report by Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers.
The Families USA report, the first-ever state-specific report of this type, is based on a groundbreaking national study by the Institute of Medicine, which in [...]
Indiana Family and Social ServicesAdministrationSecretary Mitch Roob on Friday announced that CMS hasapproved an expansion of HoosierHealthwise, thestate’s version of SCHIP, the AP/ChicagoTribunereports. Federal approval allows the state to increase eligibility to childrenin families with incomes up to 250% of the federal poverty level. The state hadapproved an expansion of the program to 300% of [...]
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) has used free-market thinking and a healthy dose of individual responsibility to create an innovative health insurance program to help uninsured people in the state get health insurance coverage.
The Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) passed the legislature with bipartisan support last year, and people already are enrolling in the new program. [...]