Indiana health insurance

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status report:
Indiana state health insurance exchange

What progress is being made in setting up its federally-mandated Indiana state health insurance exchange?"

About state health insurance exchanges

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How did Indiana officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

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Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (6)

• Larry Bucshon
• Dan Burton
• Mike Pence

• Todd Rokita
• Marlin Stutzman
• Todd Young

Our
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No (3)

• André Carson
• Joe Donnelly
• Peter Visclosky

how healthy is living in Indiana?

Indiana has dropped two rankings from last year, when it was ranked 36th healthiest state to live in, and is now 38th, according to the 2010 America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• Indiana has a low incidence of infectious disease (14th among the states)
• It also shows a low geographic disparity in outcomes and economically within the state, without major pockets of problems (ranks 11th and 12th respectively)

The bad news:

• Smoking. Only five states have higher percentages of smokers in their populations.
• Air pollution. Indiana has the next-to-worst air pollution in the nation.
• Mental health. Cancer deaths. Heart attacks and disease. High cholestrol. Indiana is in the bottom ten for all these measurements.
• While Indiana ranks well for economic geographic disparity (above) it's also in the bottom 10 for per capita income and unemployment.

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Indiana.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Indiana health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts Indiana here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Indiana, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

does Indiana have a health insurance high risk pool?

Indiana Comprehensive Health Association (click "guest" for access, then choose "ICHIA")
Toll-free 1-800-552-7921 or (317) 614-2000

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, Indiana started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about Indiana's participation, click here.

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black. In the best cases, they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.

how to find health insurance in Indiana

Cover The Uninsured is a national effort to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. Read more information on its efforts. It is a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• Cover The Uninsured's facts on the uninsured in Indiana and all other states.
• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's guide on how to find health insurance in Indiana.
• Materiales En Español – Guías para encontrar cobertura de seguro de salud.

Georgetown's Indiana health insurance guide

Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute has researched and written state-by-state guides for finding and keeping health insurance. It updates these guides as federal and state policies change. A number of non-profit organizations help fund its research. Learn more about the Health Policy Institute.

Review Georgetown's guide for Indiana.

Health insurance plan report cards for Indiana

The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers.

Go here to search for Indiana health insurance plan report cards.

Indiana government health insurance resources

Indiana Insurance Department – The health insurance section of the official state site.

Consumers Guide to Health Insurance – Resolving disputes with health insurance companies

Federal Government sites with specific Indiana Information

Indiana Mental Health Resources – Noting above that Indianans take a disproportionate number of mental health days, here the National Mental Health Information Centers lists Indiana Mental Health Resources published by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.