Bill adds work requirements for Healthy Indiana Plan
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Users of the Healthy Indiana Plan told lawmakers Tuesday adding work requirements and other restrictions would cause more problems than it would solve.
More than 700,000 Hoosiers are enrolled in the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP), a Medicaid program for able-bodied adults without children. That’s up from roughly 390,000 immediately prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sen. Ryan Mishler, R-Mishawaka, has long said the growth of that program means Medicaid could overtake K-12 education as Indiana’s largest education expense in the near future. He repeated those warnings on Tuesday…