INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels says passage of the federal health care overhaul bill will mean an end to the state's Healthy Indiana Plan for low-income adults and put one in four Hoosiers on Medicaid.
Daniels said during a Statehouse news conference Monday that the bill will lead to "higher taxes, higher health care costs and a much weaker economy going forward."
The Republican governor says that the state's Healthy Indiana Plan is suspended and will no longer add new applicants. The state will plan an orderly end of the program he said was "annihilated" by the new bill.
The Healthy Indiana Plan provides a medical savings account worth $1,100 a year, and when medical costs exceed that amount, benefits of at least $300,000 annually.
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