State Sen. Victoria Spartz (R-Noblesville) and members of the Indiana General Assembly met this week with the Employers’ Forum of Indiana to discuss the rising health care costs across the state.
Employers’ Forum of Indiana is an employer-led health care coalition of employers, physicians, hospitals, health plans, public health officials and other stakeholders.
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“Health care costs have increased dramatically over the last 20 years,” Spartz said. “These costs are unsustainable and a major economic development issue for our state.”
In 2017, the Employers’ Forum of Indiana hired the RAND Corporation, a research organization that specializes in public policy, to conduct two studies on Indiana’s rising health care costs. The first study revealed there is a wide variation in the average health care costs assessed to Hoosiers. The second study revealed Indiana had the highest health care prices when compared to 25 other states.
Spartz authored several legislative initiatives during the 2018 and 2019 legislative session to assess health care costs and outcomes. The topic was assigned to be studied this summer.