Niki Kelly, reporting for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, has an article on a hearing by the Select Joint Commission on Medicaid Oversight about the Healthy Indiana Plan. Seems there is some money in the bank — about $200 million; there is a long waiting list; and part of the wait has to do with a federal regulation concerning the number of childless adults who can be on the program.
The plan covers people who do not live with dependent children and parents who earn up to $44,000 annually for a family of four. To qualify, a person must be uninsured for six months and not have access to insurance through an employer.
From the article: “And Sen. Pat Miller, R-Indianapolis, chairwoman of the Select Joint Commission on Medicaid Oversight, wants to increase the income level at which Hoosiers could join.”
She wants MORE hoosiers to NOT have insurance???? UNBELIEVEABLE!!!
No, I think you read that backward. If the income level goes up, then more people can join. Currently, you have to make less than a certain amount to be eligible.
Yep, I re-read it after I was more awake. Scared me at first!