More than half of Hoosiers get health insurance from their employer and that coverage is growing more expensive. From 2008 to 2018 the annual Hoosier employee contribution rose from 3.8 percent of a persons income to 5.7 percent.

The percentage of uninsured children in Indiana went up from 5.9 percent in 2016 to 6.6 percent in 2018.

One of the healthiest counties in the Midwest is also the least insured. About 40 percent of the people in Holmes County Ohio do not have health insurance, according to county estimates.

About 9,000 fewer Hoosiers had health insurance in 2018, the rate went up from 8.2 to 8.3 percent, according to the data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

eHealth, which runs an online health insurance exchange, says it will bring 500 high-wage jobs to the city by the end of 2023.

Indianapolis-based Anthem beat second quarter expectations and raised its 2019 forecast again, but shares of the health insurer slid after it outlined challenges in its growing Medicaid business.

Starting July 1, tens of thousands of people who receive health insurance through Indiana's Medicaid expansion are required to report work hours or other activities.

Undocumented children in Illinois, five other states and the District of Columbia can receive health insurance through Medicaid, according to the National State Conference of Legislatures. But they lose coverage at age 19.

Employers gathered in Indianapolis to look for solutions to the high price of insurance plans, drugs and other health costs.

A state insurance committee this week advanced a bill that would limit these plans to under a year.