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By RYAN NEES
INDIANAPOLIS - Healthcare policy took center stage last Tuesday for Jill Long Thompson, who announced at McGinty Conveyors on Indianapolis’s Westside a proposal to create a quasi-governmental agency to administer a small business health insurance pool.
The announcement is renewing attention on Indiana’s burgeoning health care costs, in a state with more than half a million people uninsured. Yet what’s revealed in all of Long Thompson’s policy rollouts and white papers is a wholly different approach .jpg)
from national Democratic leaders, who might find more in common with Gov. Mitch Daniels. He’s emerged as a veritable progressive on the issue.
At McGinty Conveyors, where the CEO solemnly told Long Thompson that rising costs were forcing him to eliminate his employees’ health coverage, the Democratic candidate for governor skipped the preachy talk of moral responsibility and the common good. She breezed by any mention of insurance company profits. The first page of the proposal focused more on how health care costs affect the economy more than than patients. And her proposal is focused more on small business than the uninsured working poor.
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