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Indiana wounded by last year's $1 billion shortfall in covering Medicaid costs
The future of Medicaid serving the health needs in northwest Indiana got a hearing from leaders of 8 community health centers in Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties.
Health care providers warned of dire consequences for patients, including those with commercial insurance, from Medicaid cuts enacted by Congress in what President Donald Trump refers to as his “big beautiful bill.”
Federal and state cuts to Medicaid and other public assistance programs set to take effect in the months ahead will have an "absolutely devastating" impact on Northwest Indiana's health care providers and all users of their services.
Melissa Mitchell had a one-word response to a question posed by U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, a Democrat who represents Northwest Indiana.
Northwest Indiana's representative in the U.S. House had no qualms about voting "no" Thursday on Republican President Donald Trump's tax and spending cut legislation.
The ribbon is cut on the 11th Street Station building and parking structure, officially opening the facilities to South Shore Line riders.
On June 18, Mayor Angie Nelson Deuitch, along with city, regional, and state partners, welcomed the public to the Grand Opening of the South Shore Line’s 11th Street Station and Parking Structure during a celebratory ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The South Shore Line hit a long-awaited milestone with the opening of its 11th Street Station and adjacent parking structure.
“This station, this development here on 11th Street in downtown Michigan City is the vision,” said South Shore Line President Michael Noland during the station and parking garage’s grand opening on Wednesday.
The new train station at 11th Street in downtown Michigan City is “a gateway to our city’s future that will serve generations to come,” Mayor Angie Nelson Deuitch said at Wednesday’s grand opening.
The station and parking garage are the final piece of the Double Track NWI project.
South Shore Line leaders and a host of public officials and private sector partners celebrated the opening of the commuter railroad’s new 11th Street Station Wednesday, while construction work continued on an adjoining $101 million mixed-use development inspired by the rail project.