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STYRING: Obamacare rests on numbers concoction
Everybody’s talking about Obamacare. Website crashes. People booted off their health insurance. Sticker shock. No doubt we’ll be talking about it through the 2014 election. And the 2016 election. And most likely well beyond that.
SIDDIQUI: Americans are trustworthy on insurance
The failed rollout of the Obamacare health care exchanges is seen by many as a political gift to the Republican Party. There is no question that President Obama’s administration failed to execute a controversial law that has been heavily criticized, litigated in courts and elections, and created great unrest among the American people.
KRULL: Misguided judges reaping whirlwind
Former Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard and other veterans of the highest state courts in the country issued a warning a few days ago about the dangers of large-scale campaign spending in judicial campaigns.
VAUGHN: Courts will decide basic election issues
Although voters in Marion County won’t cast ballots for City-County elections until 2015, two courts are considering cases that will have a major impact on local elections.
SHEPARD: Conrad’s intensity still felt downtown
Surely Larry Conrad is smiling over the recent report about the phenomenal strength of the housing market in downtown Indianapolis.
WAGNER: It’s a brave new world in the suburbs
Earlier this year, I wrote for this publication about the rise of a new Hoosier swing voter, women my age who live in the doughnut counties around Indianapolis.
BECK: Bipartisanship makes big things happen
Sid and Lois Eskenazi Hospital recently opened downtown to justifiable fanfare. The state-of-the-art campus is the city’s only public hospital. Formerly known as Wishard Hospital, Eskenazi Health has long served some of our most vulnerable neighbors.
MARCUS: Not the time to emphasize our negatives
What is the number one complaint of Hoosier employers? The labor force is outdated. We do not have enough workers with the training and experience to compete with other states and nations.
MAHERN: A marriage game plan for Republicans
Although they don’t all have a natural sense of rhythm, and a few of them are always laughing and carrying on, some of my best friends are Republicans.
MACALLISTER: Gay marriage detractors need space, time
We rejoice in technological change when it improves the efficacy of our computers, but greet societal changes with less exuberance.
DANIELS: Fight over marriage amendment is foolish
Indiana has a habit of being a bit behind the curve. In recent years, we have departed from that tradition, moving boldly in education reform, telecommunications reform and economic development. We have been named the fifth-best state to do business, third best in job attraction, and best in the country for international investment.
FROEHLE: Ritz’s, Pence’s bickering hurts education
emocratic Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz and Gov. Mike Pence are spending more time arguing than doing anything worthwhile for Indiana’s education system.
Zender nears deal for 16-building apartment portfolio
The privately owned company has been shopping the 16-building portfolio for more than a year and thought it had a buyer before the deal fell through. Now, another potential suitor has stepped forward.
MEREDITH: Voters spoke clearly; now give democracy a chance
Despite being an underdog in her first run for public office, Glenda Ritz defeated incumbent Tony Bennett to become Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction in November.
HARRIS: Allow the governor to lead completely on education
For decades, the nation’s governors have been the driving force for changing—and improving—education policy.
New Carmel company to boot J.C. Penney off S&P 500
J.C. Penney, which is trying to bounce back from its worst sales year in two decades, will be replaced by Carmel-based electronic security company Allegion, which is being spun off by Irish industrial conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand Plc.
Survey: One-third of Hoosier workers in high-deductible plans
An annual survey by the benefits consulting firm Mercer found that, among 75 Hoosier employers, 34 percent of workers are already enrolled in consumer-directed health plans. And that number is only going to go up due to new Obamacare rules.
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Dr. Anantha Shekhar, a psychiatrist, has been named associate vice president for university clinical affairs at Indiana University. In his new role, Shekhar will coordinate all clinical research at the IU School of Medicine, serve on IU's clinical affairs cabinet, and serve on the research and education subcommittee of the board of the IU Health hospital system. Shekhar will also continue to be director of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, a collaboration among IU, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame. Shekhar holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph's College, a medical degree from St. John's Medical College, and a doctoral degree from the IU School of Medicine.
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Franciscan Alliance, which operates three hospitals in the Indianapolis area, has signed an affiliation agreement with the University of Chicago Medicine that will affect its facilities in northwest Indiana. Both institutions said they plan to work together to develop new models for delivering health care services, such as accountable care organizations. Franciscan, based in Mishawaka, operates 13 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois. The partnership with the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine will involve the Franciscan facilities in Crown Point, Dyer, Hammond, Michigan City and Munster.
Indiana will not allow health insurers to reinstate customers’ policies that were canceled due to new requirements of Obamacare, the state Insurance Department announced Nov. 20, saying that would “create logistical chaos” and “destabilize” Indiana’s individual insurance market. The announcement, which affects an estimated 108,000 Hoosiers who have had their policies canceled, came in response to President Obama’s request Nov. 14 that state insurance commissioners let insurers reinstate policies that they had decided to cancel for 2014. Indiana is the eighth state that has announced it will not allow insurers to reinstate canceled policies. According to the Atlantic Information Services, another five states have said they have allowed insurers to do so. However, some Hoosiers still have the option of renewing their canceled policies for 2014, as long as they do so before Dec. 31. The state's ruling announced on Wednesday would apply to customers whose policies had been canceled, and who waited until 2014 to buy coverage for that year.
The Hoosier Healthcare Innovation Challenge helped launch three young health information technology companies. CreateIT won the entire competition by developing an application for sending educational articles, event alerts and baby updates to the mobile phones of low-income pregnant moms. The goal is to help reduce infant mortality, which has surged to high levels in Indiana. Other companies that received awards during the competition were DeDupIt, which created a way to merge electronic medical records about a patient into a single report; and MedDiary, which created a new system of care that tracks all medications, over the-counter and prescriptions, being taken by a single patient. Each company received cash prizes and free professional services.