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Hoosiers for Commonsense Health Plan
Website: http://www.hchp.info/
E-mail: Hoosiers@hchp.info
Media Contact
Aaron E. Carroll, MD
317-278-0552
aaecarro@iupui.edu
Dr. Carroll is currently an assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Children’s Health Services Research Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998, and then he completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He stayed at the University of Washington to complete a health services research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. During that time he received his masters degree in Health Services and a certificate in Public Health Informatics. Dr. Carroll’s current research interests include the use of technology in health care, decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis, and health policy and professionalism.
Jonathan D. Walker, MD
260 436 2181
Jonwalker22@gmail.com
Dr. Walker attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati, and did his residency at Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA and Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, OH. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at Ohio State University.
He is active in clinical practice in the above two specialties; also clinical professor at local medical school, and active with local free clinic projects using telemedicine to identify patients with diabetic retinopathy before severe damage develops. Dr Walker is also involved with projects in developing countries including Nicaragua, Honduras, and Fiji.
Rob Stone, MD
812.333.8085
Dr. Stone is the Director and Co-Founder of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan (HCHP) and the State Coordinator of Indiana for Physicians for a National Health Program. Dr. Stone has been an emergency department physician at Bloomington Hospital since 1983, and was the Medical Director of the Community Health Access Program Clinic in Bloomington from 2005 to 2007 until it transformed into the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic. He continues to volunteer at the new clinic. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.
Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he graduated from Dartmouth College Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of Colorado Medical School. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Chris Stack, MD | 812.333.8085 | cstack@aol.com
Dr. Stack is a graduate of Stanford university, with an mba from Kellogg school of managemment at northwestern university, 1979 graduate of indiana universiity medical school, trained there in orthopaedics and retired from practice in 2004. He is a decorated navy veteran of the vietnam war, 1964-67.
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Bloomington, IN
- Indianapolis City-Marion County Council
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Northwest Indiana Federation of Labor
- United Steelworers Local 6787, Burns Harbor, IN
- Jobs with Justice, St. Joe Valley Project, South Bend, IN
- UAW Southern Indiana CAP Council
- AFSCME District Council 62, Indiana and Kentucky
- Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 30-18, Plymouth, Indiana
- United Steelworkers, USW District 7, Sub-District 4, Northern Indiana
- United Steelworkers, USW Local 12775, Portage, Indiana
- Local Union 136, Plumbers & Steamfitters, United Association, Evansville, IN
- Wabash Valley Central Labor Council
- White River Central Labor Council, Bloomington, IN
April 25, 2008
U.S. must look for a health care system to cover everyone
By Robert Stone, M.D. | Bloomington Herald Times | Guest column
Nationally, the week of April 27 to May 3 is Cover the Uninsured Week. Locally, many of the 883 GE employees and their families are getting closer every day to becoming uninsured. Since World War II, access to health care in this country has been based on employer-sponsored insurance, but the percentage of workers covered by their employers peaked in 2001 at 65 percent and has been dropping ever since. The projections are that in a very few years less than half of Indiana workers will have coverage through their work.
April 24, 2008
Providing health care for all shouldn’t make insurers rich
By Milton Fisk and Kay Mueller | Herald-Times | Guest column
Government subsidies and outsourcing may be good for business without always being good for the public. Medicare outsources the administration of its prescription drug program, Medicare D, to private insurers. Medicare Advantage — Medicare C — subsidizes managed care insurance plans for seniors choosing them. Several current presidential aspirants — Clinton and Obama — would subsidize the purchase of insurance for the low-income uninsured. Each of these plans offers private insurers protection against a less wasteful plan, one that does without private insurers.
February 11, 2008
Veterans are growing segment of the uninsured in America
By Dr. Rob Stone | Bloomington Herald Times
A newly published study from Harvard in the American Journal of Public Health (Himmelstein, Woolhandler, et al, December issue) adds a new sad story to the picture — another bunch of losers — American veterans. Almost 2 million of the uninsured are veterans, along with almost 4 million of their family members, so that one in every eight uninsured is a veteran or member of a veteran’s household.
February 11, 2008
Prescription for change
By Daniel Lee | The Indianapolis Star
Dr. Rob Stone, an emergency room physician at Bloomington Hospital, has emerged as one of Indiana’s most outspoken advocates for making insurance accessible to all. He is co-founder and director of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan, which contends that the current system is too profit-driven, too inefficient, and leaves too many people without affordable access to health care.
November 14, 2007
Myth buster
Indira Dammu | Indiana Daily Student
Contrary to Republican claims, however, no Democratic presidential candidate has advocated a “free” universal health care system. Sen. John Edward’s health care plan, the most promising within the field, calls for a small tax increase and repeal of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy. Sixty percent of Americans support such a tax increase if it means universal access to health care.
September 9, 2007
Medicare-for-all would keep everyone covered
Aaron E. Carroll, M.D. | The Indianapolis Star
One year ago, when the U.S. Census Bureau released its figures on Americans lacking health insurance in 2005, I wrote a piece here describing the sad state of the health care system in America. Recently, the 2006 numbers were released, and things have only gotten worse.