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Professor Fran Quigley, ’87, and Morgan Galloway Daly, ’19, joined in writing an op-ed urging the state to not reinstate health insurance premiums to those who utilize HIP. The piece published in the Indianapolis Star January 25.

The state suspended HIP premiums in March 2020 and utilized federal funding to stop involuntary disenrollments. This allowed thousands of Indiana residents to keep their health insurance coverage and likely saved thousands of lives, the piece says. In addition, data shows premiums have kept people from accessing HIP coverage, pushed people into inferior health insurance coverage, and many people don’t understand that nonpayment of HIP premiums will cause them to lose health insurance coverage. Black HIP members, another study demonstrated, are more likely to lose coverage or received inferior coverage than other HIP users based on premiums, which further exacerbates racial health inequalities. Further, FSSA has admitted the amount of money lost by not collecting premiums is insignificant, the piece notes.

The op-ed was co-written by Adam Mueller, executive director of the Indiana Justice Project; Kate Hess, executive director of Hoosier Action; David W. Green Sr., president of Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, Morgan Galloway Daly, ’19, director of public policy and Systems advocacy of the Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council; and Gray Lesesne, dean and rector of Christ Church Cathedral.