Ind. Family and Social Services Schedule Public Meetings on Uninsured

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration will begin a series of 13 public meetings over the next seven weeks to discuss the issue of uninsured Indiana residents.

The meetings will begin the first week of May with sessions in Indianapolis and Gary and are open to the public. They continue through a June 6 meeting in Terre Haute. FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob will lead them.

“FSSA has been approached by legislators and community leaders to begin a public discussion about the issue of health care affordability and quality, particularly for low-income and uninsured Hoosiers,” Roob said in a prepared statement as his agency announced the meeting schedule.

A growing number of Indiana residents go without health insurance for a variety of reasons, FSSA said. Expense was listed by the agency as one of those reasons. Last year, each Indiana family with health insurance paid an additional $953 in premiums to help cover the costs of providing care to the uninsured.

The following is the full schedule of meetings, with dates, cities, locations and times:

May 1, Gary, Ivy Tech Campus, 1440 E. 35th St., 2-4 p.m.

May 3, Indianapolis, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, 418 E. 34th St., 5:30-7:30 p.m.

May 9, Evansville, Ivy Tech Campus, 3502 First Ave., 6-8 p.m.

May 10, Vincennes, location to be determined, 9-11 a.m.

May 10, Bloomington, location to be determined, 4-6 p.m.

May 18, Muncie, Ball Memorial Hospital, 2401 W. University Ave., 1-3 p.m.

May 22, Crawfordsville, location to be determined, 1-3 p.m.

May 30, Fort Wayne, Ivy Tech Campus, 3800 N. Anthony Blvd., 1-3 p.m.

May 30, Lagrange, Lakeland High School, 805 E. County Road 75 North, 6-8 p.m.

May 31, Elkhart, Ivy Tech Campus, 2521 Industrial Parkway, 8:30-10:30 a.m.

June 6, Terre Haute, Ivy Tech Campus, 7999 S. Highway 41, 10 a.m.-noon.