CNBC: Indiana 7th Worst in Quality of Life Index in America

According the CNBC, not exactly what you would call a liberal bastion, the State of Indiana continues to fall behind in the quality of life index. We aren't exactly moving in the right direction either. Indiana dropped five spots from last year. Ranking 7th worst in the quality of life index is not something to be proud of. Nor is having seen teacher salaries declining more than all but one state in the country, when adjusted for inflation.

Things are not going so great in this state, when it comes to education, poverty, and quality of life. Given how Mike Claytor has shown that the state is cooking the books to make cooking the books to make the budget situation look better, so it is difficult to believe much that comes out of Indianapolis. Rhonda Rhoads and her partisan, far-right Tea Party agenda, which has targeted working families and our public schools have failed. It is time for her to go into early retirement. It is time for someone in Indianapolis that will work for regular people and our school. We need Heidi Sellers as our next State Representative.

Heidi, Heidi, Heidi, Oh! Rhonda Rhoads has got to go!

The Coverage Gap in Indiana

Unlike all of our neighboring states, Indiana declined to accept the expansion of Medicaid. According to the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, 181,930 people will fall into a coverage gap thanks to Indiana declining to accept federal money for Medicaid expansion. These people in the gap are those that make too little qualify for subsidies in the exchange, but too much to qualify the existing Medicaid system. Gov. Pence is trying to get a waiver for an alternate plan, but it would not cover as many people versus simply accepting the federal funds. Let's make sure we elect people to the General Assembly which will take a close look at seeing these Hoosiers get covered. For those that have insurance now, why should you care? These people currently go the emergency room for care, which we all pay for through higher bills for health care.

The Coverage Gap: Uninsured Poor Adults in States that Do Not Expand Medicaid

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation