ACTION ALERT -- Indiana Senate Bill 2 Medicaid Matters Committee Hearing at 1:30 PM on Wednesday

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  SB 002 Medicaid matters

  To be heard in committee on April 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM Room 404

  SB 2 threatens healthcare coverage for more than 750,000 low-

  income Hoosiers by making extreme changes to Indiana's Medicaid

  programs, including massive cuts to the Healthy Indiana Plan, limiting HIP

  enrollment, and adding burdensome new paperwork requirements to the

  program. Plus, it prevents advertising the program, keeping eligible Hoosiers

  in the dark about their healthcare options.

  Source: Hoosier Action

  Assigned to Public Health. Email Chairman Rep. Brad Barrett .

  Action Item:

  Sign Hoosier Action's Petition

  Contact Chairman Barrett to amend SB2 -- 317-232/9695

  h56@iga.in.gov and reach out to your local legislator IGA | Find Your Legislator

  Sample message:

  “My name is [name]. I’m a resident of [town/zip code]. I'm contacting you

  today to oppose SB 2 because it:

   Limits HIP enrollment at 500,000, arbitrarily kicking more than 250,000 

  people o< of their healthcare coverage.

   Adds burdensome new paperwork requirements for all Indiana

  Medicaid members, including children, the elderly, and people with

  disabilities. This will most likely lead to people who qualify for Medicaid 

  losing coverage and then having to reenroll due to paperwork issues, a 

  disruptive and expensive process referred to as “churn.”

   Subjects HIP members to new work reporting requirements, which will

  lead to additional coverage loss and drive up the administrative costs

  of the program, wasting public dollars.

  Indiana’s Medicaid programs are vital to both Hoosier health and our state's

  economy. SB 2 not only risks the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, it

  threatens to remove more than $3.5 billion from our state's economy by

  cutting HIP! This federal money, which covers 90% of HIP's cost, is

  overwhelmingly spent in local communities and pays for tens of thousands of 

• healthcare jobs and services. Without this funding, more hospitals and

  healthcare providers will likely be forced to close.

  The new administrative requirements proposed would not only lead hundreds 

  of thousands of Hoosiers to lose their healthcare coverage, SB 2 will make all 

  of Indiana’s Medicaid programs more expensive to run, wasting public dollars 

  to create costly new bureaucracy and unnecessary barriers for members.

  Money that could be used to improve Hoosier health will instead go toward

  managing a complex system of repetitious eligibility checks and exemptions.

  (Source: Hoosier Action) Thank you”