BRIAN HOWEY: Shrewd Doc Bowen on health insurance

Perhaps the most inspiring part of Otis Bowen’s legacy is that between 1946 and 1972 he delivered 3,000 Hoosier babies when he was the small town family physician in Bremen. The future Indiana governor would say that having his hands on so many emerging lives taught him “how to approach emer…

GUEST COMMENTARY: Indiana's GOP didn't listen to middle class

Last year, Hoosiers entrusted the Republican Party with some of their most precious possessions.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Health care in America is rapidly changing

Today, we find ourselves at a new crossroads in the delivery of health care in the U.S. The health care industry finds itself in a state of unprecedented change.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Losing employer coverage undermines health care law

Federal officials recently made some discouraging predictions about the future of American health care.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Expanding health care coverage is good for community

It’s clear that low-income, working Hoosiers without health insurance and Indiana’s economy as a whole would benefit from expanding coverage. Whether it is through the Healthy Indiana Plan or under the Medicaid provisions under health reform, we cannot wait to act.

EDITORIAL: Provide more health care providers

The phrase "serious health care problem" usually refers to cancer, heart disease and other disorders. There's another looming health care problem that must not be ignored by policymakers, however. The United States is not generating enough new doctors to meet anticipated demand.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Malpractice lawsuits cost all of us

A few years ago, at a local legislative forum sponsored by the Indiana State Medical Association, there was a lively and interesting debate between one of our local legislators (who happened to also be a lawyer) and some docs who were attending.

HEALTH CARE IN 2013: Changes will affect Northwest Indiana

If seismic devices monitoring planet earth could measure the universe of health care, health geologists would report significant tremors. As heat and pressure shift the tectonic plates beneath our feet, economic pressures and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) change the infrastructure and landsc…

DOUG ROSS: Let's do a controlled experiment on Medicaid

Indiana, like other states, is trying to figure out how to comply with the federal law compelling states to expand Medicaid eligibility so more uninsured Americans get health care coverage. There's a catch, though, because states pay a portion of the cost of Medicaid.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Expand Medicaid to insure more Hoosiers

This week, state leaders euthanized the biggest, boldest Hoosier jobs proposal of the 2013 session of the Indiana General Assembly.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Working together to improve health outcomes

Every day, patients and those who care for them must make important decisions about their health care. There are many options to choose from, and too often we do not have reliable information to make good decisions.

What does the Affordable Care Act mean for you?

These next two years are important years in health care, with several provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act taking effect.

NWI needs health facilities, better data

All who are interested in health or health care in Northwest Indiana should read the section on health in the 2012 Quality of Life Indicators report. This, among other studies, points to Northwest Indiana as one the areas of the state where citizens rank lowest in categories commonly used as…

EDITORIAL: Indiana must discuss health care options

Like it or not, Obamacare is going to require changes in how health care is funded in Indiana, just as elsewhere in the nation.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Obamacare is bringing more changes this year

More than two years after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed, many changes contained in the law will begin to be phased in this year.

ANDREA NEAL: Government rules trump Indiana company's beliefs

When the officers of Grote Industries sat down to discuss a possible legal challenge to the contraceptive mandate in the national health care law, the vote was immediate and unanimous. “We decided that it was definitely against our beliefs,” says Chairman and CEO William Grote III.

Choosing health insurance that meets your needs

Millions of working Americans are still without health insurance, and many more worry about whether they'll be able to afford their existing coverage due to rising health costs.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Fine-tune Obamacare so it serves everyone

We at Franciscan Alliance believe the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is in need of significant alterations. We hope the 113th Congress agrees.

EDITORIAL: We pick Visclosky for U.S. House

These are troubled times for the United States. That makes Northwest Indiana's choice in the 1st District U.S. House all the more important.

Tallian reviews budget process, health care act

PORTAGE | State Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, gave members of the Greater Portage Chamber of Commerce a primer of sorts Thursday on the state budget process and the federal Affordable Care Act during its monthly luncheon.