#Hoosiers

[victusinveritas]

[spicy-libra]

Hey fuckers ✌🏼

[macaroniyankee]

Indiana Monument at Gettysburg and yours truly.

[rosielindy]

Yesterday a troll on social media told me to move to IL if I want to live in a blue state, asked me to leave them alone. My mom was born and raised in Indiana and I’ve lived here 33 years, before the GOP supermajority. I’m not going anywhere!

[timidusaquilae]

Hey, Indiana

I got this in my e-mail, I'm not a US citizen but I care about a lot of those, so thought I'd spread it around :)

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SB 2, proposed legislation at the Indiana General Assembly, threatens to take away healthcare coverage from more than 750,000 low-income Hoosiers by making extreme changes to Indiana's Medicaid programs, including massive cuts to the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP). SB 2 would: 

Limit HIP enrollment at 500,000, immediately kicking more than 250,000 people off of their healthcare coverage. 

Cap lifetime HIP coverage at 36 months, including coverage for persons with chronic health conditions, battling cancer, and with disabilities.

Adding burdensome new paperwork requirements to the program.

HIP is an Indiana Medicaid program which provides essential healthcare coverage for more than 750,000 low-income Hoosier adults. HIP enables 1 in 7 Hoosiers to get and afford the essential healthcare we all need to live, work, and take care of their families. HIP is vital to both Hoosier health and our state's economy. SB 2 not only risks the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, it threatens to remove more than $3.5 billion from our state's economy! This federal money, which covers 90% of HIP's cost, is overwhelmingly spent in local communities, and pays for tens of thousands of healthcare jobs and services. Without this funding, more hospitals and healthcare providers will likely be forced to close. The new administrative requirements proposed would not only lead hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers to lose their healthcare coverage, SB 2 will make HIP more expensive to run, wasting public dollars to create costly new bureaucracy and unnecessary barriers for members. Money that could be used to improve Hoosier health will instead go toward managing a complex system of repetitious eligibility checks and exemptions. 

SB 2 will cause a huge spike in the uninsured rate, destabilizing Indiana's healthcare system, driving up healthcare costs for all Hoosiers and threatening the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers.

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(and for the curious, Hoosiers just means a resident of the US state, Indiana)

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Here's what we need you to do: make five phone calls to five key legislators on the Senate Appropriations Committee to ask them to vote "No" on SB 2. 

Sen. Michael Crider (317)-234-9054

Sen. Eric Bassler (317)-234-9425

Sen. Liz Brown  (317)-232-9497

Sen. Greg Goode  (317)-232-9490

Sen. Travis Holdman (317)-232-9453

Here's a simple call script: 

Hi my name is ______ and I am from ______. I am calling today because Senator ______ is on the Appropriations Committee which will vote on SB 2. I am very concerned about this bill because ___________ [it will lead to hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers losing their healthcare, hurt our economy, I'm a medicaid member, etc].

So far, we've helped to coordinate more than 4,000 contacts with these Senators! If we keep the pressure up we can stop SB 2. To learn more about SB 2, check out our landing page at www.hoosieraction.org/stop-sb2 and this recent article from the IDS

We all have bodies. We all get sick. Everyone deserves access to healthcare, regardless of income, race, or ability. Just five minutes of your time will help make certain that all Hoosiers can go to the doctor when they get sick. 

See you tonight, Tracey Hutchings-Goetz

Communications & Policy Director

[mickemz01]

Me, shuffling Hoosiers, The Crane Wives, and Autoheart:

Also me: Damn! This is depressing! Gosh!

[raquazion9000]

idk I kinda like having a theme in my blobs now, anyways we got some monster-y things

[in-love-with-movies]

Hoosiers (1986)

[victusinveritas]

Can confirm most of these stereotypes. The Forest People (just south and west of Bloomington) are...a hell of a lot of fun.

[toca144]

Hey. I graduated.

[tonyvasquez]

Indiana Hoosiers dominate FIU in the home opener at Memorial Stadium. Photos can be found on NUVO. https://www.nuvo.net/sports/indiana-hoosiers-dominate-fiu-in-home-opener-at-memorial-stadium/collection_2e37c9e6-6b15-11ef-9840-f74c632f482b.html#1

[theoscarsproject]

Hoosiers (1986). A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.

[thesagittarianmind]

[thatgirlmegan]

go Hoosiers

[floridaboiler]