Indiana’s Stance On Health Care
(AP) Here is a look at where Indiana stands on implementing President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul, which the Supreme Court ruled today can go forward:
NUMBER OF UNINSURED: 850,000 state residents are uninsured, or about 13.4 percent.
WHERE THE STATE STANDS: Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels ordered state agencies to build a framework for an online health insurance marketplace, a cornerstone of the federal law, but he had not implemented one pending the Supreme Court ruling. Indiana also has pushed to use its health savings account to help cover an estimated 500,000 who will become eligible for Medicaid in 2014 under the federal health care overhaul, but federal officials denied the request in September, saying it was premature.