Februari 24, 2017
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and by wtiu members. thank you. >> joe: coming up on 'indiana newsdesk': as republicans decide what changes to propose to the country's health care system many are wondering if a version of indiana's medicaid program could be arriving in
other states because the design of indiana's healthy indiana is head of medicare and medicaid but some say that system is not perfect. and you have probably heard of the drug-sniffing dog but what about a dog trained to sniff out electronics?
>> you put a sim card and even with the officer searching he may not find it. >> reporter: the dog being trained to uncover evidence that can be hard to find. plus, some indiana lawmakers want you to go online and get a prescription for glasses or
contacts. we will tell you why some optometrists say the bill is dangerous. those stories and the latest news headlines from across the state right now on 'indiana newsdesk': >> joe: welcome to 'indiana
newsdesk' i am joe wren. the person who designed indian's unique medicaid program may soon be leading national health care policy. seema verma is picked to lead up the effort and her model, hip 2.0 plan would spread to other states.
a side effect of public media's jay harper reports it is not working for everybody. >> reporter: verma added a twist. under hip 2.0, you have to make monthly payments and loosing a payment means you could lose insurance.
if you make les than the federal poverty level, $12,000 a year you don't lose the insurance but lose the vision and dental. if you are above the poverty line and miss a payment you are locked out of coverage for six months. fran quigly runs the health
clinic at iu school of law. he works with people who have lost coverage. >> we are still confused and clients are confused. it is enormously confusing. >> reporter: even if a client pays their bills on time each month they could lose coverage
because the state insurers running hip 2.0 is are making mistakes. allen was forced into retirement because of heart problems, diabetes and then found out his kidneys were failing. >> a lot of my problems started then.
i had come off the road and retired because i wasn't able to drive anymore. >> joe: he signed up for hip 2.0 in 2016 and paid his bills each month but one time he went to the doctor and said you are not covered and he said the insurance company, anthem, told
him they missed a payment. >> my wife said this is when we paid and where we paid it at. >> joe: he said this kept happening even after repeated issues the state said it was unpaid. he and his wife were frustrated. >> i see roughly 3-4 hip cases a
month. over the course of a year i will work on 35-40 hip cases. >> reporter: attorneys say they have repealed and resolved dozens of cases where instate or insurance company made mistakes and got people kicked off hip 2.0.
people sent payments in but something went wrong. >> our clients call us very upset and a little bit angry they have to go through the process of an appeal to get something they are entitled to that should not have been interrupted.
>> joe: reports show thousands of people have been kicked off their hip 2.0 coverage for missing a month of payment. if they actually made the payment they may not know they can appeal. this is the advocate director for the services:
>> in order for someone to get to us they need to know they have a legal issue and then they need to know they can contact indiana legal services. i would say we are only seeing a small portion of what is out there. >> joe: the state declined to be
interviewed for the story. hip 2.0 is a huge bureaucracies, a government organization working with insurance companies managing thousands and thousands of monthly payments. >> somewhere along the lines our folks slip through the cracks and payments are lost or not
recognized and we don't know what happened. it could be human error, processing error, we don't know. >> joe: verma and former governor mike pence said it would lead to more control of their health insurance but some disagree.
they argue the payments reduce enrollment, make the program costly to run and more difficult for clients to stay enrolled >> it is the opposite of the small government philosophy. this is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and a huge pain and sometimes physically causing
pain to people who need help. >> joe: without the requirement for monthly payments, people like allen wilson wouldn't lose coverage. wilson eventually got on medicare but anthem still hasn't covered some of the bills he acquired.
if anthem doesn't pay he has no choice but to file bankruptcy. from indiana's news desk, i am jake harper. >> joe: for more information on state run medicaid program we spoke with simon a health policy expert at indiana university. he said it is set to undergo
significant changes and this could occur in the form of block granting and says there are two things to know about block granting. >> one is that the way that medicaid is currently financed which is non-block grant is the federal government tells the
state you sign up as many people as under the rules we have and for everyone who signs up i promise, the federal government, to pay my share of the money. under a block grant the federal government says to it state i will give you a fixed amount of money and you manage how that is
being spent. the concern is that fixed amount of money going to be less than what the federal government would have otherwise spent. the second is that states are going to be given more authority to set the rules of how one qualifies for medicaid, how one
continues to stay eligible for medicaid, and when you see going to be provided. so states they chose a number of thifrngs we haven't seen or have only seen a few states do. the question is what is going to be the impact of all of those changes happening together.
>> joe: is there an up side to having a program like hip 2.0 versus a regular medicaid expansion? >> there are possible upsides to allowing states to do things they see as potentially better for their folks on medicare. allowing states to have
flexibility is good but we are really expanding under the new proposal the scope of what the state would do. it is also thought states know better how to manage a program but you need to make sure that it is being done in a way that doesn't cause people to fall
through the cracks. >> joe: so the designer of indiana's medicaid option is the head of medicaid and medicare on the federal level. do you perhaps her influence will make the plan resemble hip 2.0? >> many people are saying let's
look closer at indiana because things in indiana's medicaid plan may be more of what the federal government might see as what they would like to adopt. >> joe: how would you expect medicare numbers to be affected by the block grant? >> i think people's fear is
fewer people will be covered under medicaid through the block grant system. the way the expansion is blocking increases cost as well. if the amounts that are being sent for a block grant resemble more what med kate cost earlier than under the affordable care
act then the implications is there may be fewer people covered. >> joe: thank you very much. appreciate your type. the bipartisan national governor's association sent a letter to house republican leaders asking them to retain a
meaningful federal role in financing the medicaid program for income people. now for headlines we go over to lindsey wright who has the latest. >>> exodus refuge immigration, the organization that battled former governor mike pence's
attempted ban on syrian refuge said it is deeply troubled by president trump's same decision. pence, the vice president now, tried to ban immigrants from coming to indian. exodus said trump's plan is coming during one of the worst refuge crisises of all time.
a former purdue student is suing the school and officials in what she calls reverse persecution. he was suspended and dismissed from the navvy and rotc after being accused of assault. in a statement they said the school is aware of the lawsuit but hasn't served in details.
this is the second application of claiming title nine is bias against men. former indiana university student is serving one-year probation for attacking a muslim women outside bloomington cafe. he attacked the woman in 2016 and expressed remorse and blamed
the attack on mixing alcohol with prescription drugs. the city of bloomington said private developers charged with. >> a code required for donations this year would impact the funds which receives no taxpayer funding. and the reward leading to a con
vision in the fatal shooting of an endangered whooping crane has grown to $15,000. the bird was found dead in early january near goose pond. there are only about 600 left in north america. indiana's unemployment rate is at the lowest in 15 years
standing at 4%. but for the 4th consecutive month the state's labor force declined. the labor force measures people who have a job or are actively looking for one. indiana's labor force has shrunk this month in more than four
years. a traveling exhibit celebrate lgbtq is in town. the legacy wall features artists, musicians, actors, political figures and social activists. >> i didn't think i would ever live along enough to see
anything like this come into existence. many people come back four or five times because of all the consent. >> the exhibit can be found in the indiana union memorial. this is the fourth instillation of the wall.
>> joe: thanks a lot, lindsey, coming up next on 'indiana newsdesk'. we will visit a dog trained to sniff out electronic devices. and there was action at the statehouse on a number of bills. coming up a recap. these stories and more right
here on 'indiana newsdesk'. and safety. the state health commissioner and drug prevention treatment enforcement say relapsing the environments is a much-needed threat to to reduce the threat of hiv and hepatitis c. a major road building bill was
proved including fuel tax increases and new vehicle registration fees. a conservative group called americans for prosperity in indiana opposed the tax. they wanted to freeze all other state spending. gop senator luke kenley is not a
fan. >> indiana cannot afford not to do this and do it right because our economy depends on good roads. >> the town hall was organized by americans for prosperity indiana, fiscally conservative group strongly opposed.
they will hold other town halls around the state on the issue. an amendment to a bill would prevent short-term rentals operating year-round capping them at 180 days. it would have prohibited local governments to inhibit the rentals except when it comes to
public safety. officials in chicago requested state aid to combat their lead-tainted water crisis. the delegation testified in favor of two bills before the senate appropriation committee. one bill seeks aid for the school district and the other
seeks five million over two years from the state. a bill designed to significantly reduce the restrictions on e-liquid manufacturers in indiana had its first hearing in the senate. seven producers control the indiana market and the
restrictions went into effect last year and prompted a lawsuit from e-liquid manufacturer and sparked an fbi investigation into the whether some lawmakers benefited financially from the legislation. all indiana teachers would have to undergo a criminal background
check every five years under a legislature proposal spanning in the statehouse. the education committee approved the bill that tightens policies on background checks. a senate committee approved a bill that would require online retailers to collect sales tax
for indiana even if they have no physical connection to the state. the bill would require online if they meet a certainty quantity of sales. the federal court will have to weigh in. some lawmakers want people to
get prescription glasses and contacts online. barbara brosher reports more. >> barbara: several lawmakers are backing a bill that would remove the provision that prevents subscribing online eye care. >> we have a lack of access to
care and in some parts finding a health care provider is different. >> reporter: a service that officers online vision screening allows people to get glasses or contacts after using a series of test using a computer and smartphone.
many opt -- optometrists oppose the bill >> i have sat with patients thinking all they wanted was a pair of glasses and review their subscription but we found something serious. >> reporter: they said they can detect high blood pressure and
even tumors. they offer services in 39 states but pulled out of some, including indiana, because of barbara brosher, 'indiana >> south carolina passed the bill last year. we will continue following these and other bills as they
progress. police often use k-9 units to help with drug and fire investigations but now dogs are sniffing out something new. an indian man is training them to pick up on the smell of electronic devices like thumb drives and memory cards.
police across the country are using the dogs to help solve cases as barbara brosher reports. >> barbara: this energetic lab is practicing to become an electronic detection k-9. he has trained several dogs to aid in fires but now he is
teaching them to sniff out chemicals within the electronic disdevices. it is an idea jordan got after talking a friend on the internet child sex crimes task force. he thought if he could train dogs to detect the smell of the device it could help.
>> there are 20 investigators there, the dog comes in and cuts the time in half and maybe within the first 10-15 minutes it can find devices that a great efrd for them. >> reporter: it seems to be working. jordan's first dog, helped
collect items from gerald vogel's home. he is serving time after pleading guilty to sex crimes and child pornography. jordan's dogs have helped track down evidence in other cases as well. >> sometimes the house is jam
packed full of stuff and we are human and we will make mistakes. >> reporter: joliet, illinois is one of several communities benefiting from the units. the cost is about $10,000 and they say here is it already paying out. joliet received its k-9 unit,
cash, in november. and his handler admits she was spectacle. >> i walked in my door and screamed to my daughter would you hide your cellphone because i am coming in and want the dog to search for your cellphone. and she screams i can't find it
and haven't found it in two days and he ended up finding it. that is how i became a believer. >> reporter: here is how it work. brook points to an area she wants cash to sniff out and when cash is on a scent he takes two steps back and sits down.
brooks asks him to point to the area where he smells the device. good guy. he is rewarded with a handful of food. >> what we have here is a composition book. but it is actually an ipad. >> reporter: the state attorney
jim glass says he is getting requests from other agents interested in taking him out on search warrants. >> the dea came to ask for a console and that doesn't happen if they don't think it is real science. >> reporter: he thinks more
departments will see the value of purchasing a k-9 detection. this is the seventh dog being trained for the job. >> they can smell a drop of gasoline and the smell of micro-sd a human cannot do that. >> joe: and that is all the time we have for now but our work
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