It’s a sad fact, and whatever you blame it on — the slumping national economy, manufacturing layoffs due to globalization, etc — one thing is certain: it needs to change.
Indiana’s situation is not unlike the overall national picture, but one thing which is unique to us is our state government’s severe aversion to SCHIP, the government-sponsored initiative to relieve impoverished children who have no health insurance.
The program could be, and should be, improved and expanded. It’s being debated at the state and national levels, but one thing which is unique to Indiana is the fact that we have a neo-conservative Governor in Mitch Daniels, and a classically conservative state government. That means it’s unlikely that anything will be done to help Indiana’s impoverished children until at least 2009.
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