Republicans have enacted Medicaid changes with quarterly eligibility checks, work requirements, new waivers and long waitlists. That’s a lot of uncertainty for our 2 million Hoosiers enrollees, half of whom are children. And I want to remind us all of that fact.

We’re talking about children. We’re talking about our seniors. We’re talking about our medically complex. We’re talking about half of the births in Indiana.

We can disagree on the logistics while still talking about enrollees with kindness and respect. Medicaid was never “boring” for the Hoosiers who rely on it.

Medicaid rhetoric has always been somewhat nasty. Phrases such as “welfare queen” have been thrown around for decades. But now it’s bleeding from social media into official meetings.

The recent quarterly financial repor

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