Health Care

Medical respite programs provide homeless people a safe place to recover from surgery or acute illness, learn to manage a chronic condition, and get help finding permanent housing. The decades-old concept has taken off in recent years.

Indiana’s legislative leaders sent a letter to the state’s health care providers and insurers a few months ago. In it, they told them to act now to reduce health care costs or lawmakers will take steps to do so next year.

Healthcare access

Farmers across Indiana can start applying for new specialized health plans. The Indiana Farm Bureau (INFB) rolled out the health care option to its…

Farmers across the Midwest are facing tight profit margins and rising healthcare costs. And that means some hold off getting medical treatment or forgo…

With a physician's decision to relocate, Lutheran Hospital effectively ends its heart transplant program on April 1.Officials with the Lutheran Health…

On July 18, WBOI hosted our quarterly Issues & Ales panel discussions at Calhoun Street Soups, Salads and Spirits.Our first hour focused on having the…

The point of insurance is to ensure that individuals who face a catastrophic event with high costs do not end up bankrupt and destitute. Leading up to the…

The “self-fulfilling prophecy” was a term first coined by Robert Merton: “a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the…

On Sept. 11th 2017, IPFW hsoted a panel discussion called Funding Healthcare. Panelists discussed what works and what doesn't work about the way the US…