Indiana Stands to Lose 16,500 Health Care Jobs under Medicare Sequester Cuts Indiana hospitals face an additional $844 million in cuts over 10 years under the sequester expected to begin at midnight. Under sequestration, Medicare payments to providers will be cut by two percent. Approximately 16,500 health care and related jobs could be lost in Indiana by 2021 as a result of cuts triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Expanding Coverage Makes Sense for Indiana: New Report Expanding coverage under the Affordable Care Act would bring more than $10 billion in funding from the federal government through 2020, according to a new report by the University of Nebraska Center for Health Policy. Read the report and news release for more.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Releases Report on Uninsured Veterans In partnership with the Urban Institute, RWJF released a report on the number of veterans who could gain coverage under expansion: 31,000 veterans in Indiana do not have health insurance 15,000 family members of veterans do not have health insurance Important Documents:
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