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April 15, 2025
Braun launches 'Make Indiana Healthy Again' initiative, makes significant changes to SNAP
Gov. Mike Braun unveiled a new health initiative which makes several significant changes to Indiana's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The top U.S. health official said the changes go further than any other state's so far.
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April 15, 2025
'Chaos to the system': Senate moves nonprofit hospital bill forward, despite impassioned debate
Republican lawmakers passionately debated legislation to tackle health care costs among Indiana's largest nonprofit hospitals. The Senate ultimately voted to move the measure forward and return it to the House with amendments.
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April 10, 2025
Indiana's 'big five' hospital systems could face two year price freeze under amended bill
Large nonprofit hospital systems would be prohibited from raising prices for two years under an amendment approved by a Senate committee. The bill is meant to address health care costs in Indiana — but has faced harsh criticism from some lawmakers.
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April 15, 2025
As dementia rates increase, experts warn hospital emergency rooms are underprepared
One in six visits to the emergency department in 2022 that resulted in hospital admission had a wait of four or more hours, according to an Associated Press and Side Effects Public Media data analysis.
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Local News / April 9, 2025
'They’re trying to get us to quit.' Employees fear disruption as Indianapolis VA returns to in-person work
Workers at the Indianapolis VA Hospital are required to be in-person starting on April 14, as part of a new federal policy. But some staff raised concerns there isn’t enough space in the building.
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Local News / April 8, 2025
Language making it illegal to sleep in public spaces reappears in Senate bill
An Indiana house bill that would have made it illegal to sleep on government property died in February. But advocates for people experiencing homelessness say they were caught off guard when lawmakers inserted similar language into a different bill this week.
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Public Affairs / April 1, 2025
Members, advocates rally at Statehouse, call on lawmakers to kill proposed changes to Medicaid
Advocates and Medicaid members said proposed changes to Medicaid could lead to bigger issues for Hoosiers and the state. Demonstrators called on lawmakers and the governor to protect Medicaid from changes being made at the state and federal level.
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