| Protecting Medicaid for Hoosiers in Need |
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Indiana’s Medicaid program exists to help disabled and sick Hoosiers get the medical care they need, but major increases in Medicaid costs are threatening the future of the program.
In the last four years alone, spending on the entitlement program has increased by $5 billion, which hurts Indiana’s ability to fund other important needs like K-12 education. That’s why I supported a new law that moves the state toward getting Medicaid spending under control and creates a more fiscally responsible program.
Senate Enrolled Act 2 requires the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration to gather information from state and federal agencies to verify whenever individuals are eligible for Medicaid, which will help find and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse within the program. SEA 2 also enacts common-sense reforms to the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP) by including work or volunteer requirements of 20 hours or more per week for able-bodied, working-age adults.
While Washington, D.C. continues to add to our national debt, here in Indiana we balance our state budgets. That’s why we must operate the state’s Medicaid program with fiscal integrity – so it remains available for those who truly need it.
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