Healthcare Providers Push Back At Braun’s Medicaid Directive [Video]

STATEHOUSE — Healthcare experts believe Gov. Mike Braun’s plan to overhaul Medicaid will do little to accomplish the goals he has for the program.

Indiana’s Medicaid program is facing a $1 billion funding shortfall and Braun has called the program “broken.” He said on Wednesday that in order to fix the issues plaguing Medicaid, the state needs to restrict the number of people it adds to the program going forward.

Braun hopes to accomplish that by directing all Medicaid providers in Indiana to stop advertising their products on radio and TV.

Milele Kennedy, executive director of Gennesaret Free Clinics, tells WISH-TV that limiting the amount of information available to Hoosiers about Medicaid will not change the status quo much and will leave more people uninsured.

“People are already unclear about the options available when it comes to health care,” she said. “Many of the people that come through our doors don’t know …