Good morning. It is Wednesday, January 22nd, five minutes after 11. It is Kendall and Casey on 93 WIBC.

And an interesting lead up to this segment. The very last commercial we just aired was a Medicaid commercial.

And your governor, Mike Braun, has now directed Medicaid providers to stop advertising on TV and radio in Indiana.

And the aim is to reduce Medicaid reliance and save state funds by wearing people off the program.

Well, it is interesting, right?

And it's going to be bad for us, probably, and not just us, but all these TV and radio stations that'll have this money

you know pulled out from under them but do you think about it right so what you have is a government

funded program and then that government funded program is using money to tell people you need to get

on the program get this government funded program the Medicaid Medicaid to tell people you need to get on the program.

Get this government funded program.

The Medicaid, Medicaid in the state is a disaster.

And whatever they do, no matter what bill they pass, based on the bills that have been proposed,

we won't even begin to fix it in the long term.

The damage Holcomb did in 2020 and 2021, getting all of those able-bodied people onto the Medicaid

roles is disgusting.

And it is, as we said it would at the time, it is caused long-term financial havoc, not only

for that program, but for the taxpayers of the state of Indiana.

And the government should be willing to help people who cannot help themselves, not people

who are unwilling to help themselves.

And there's a whole lot of people that are on government-funded insurance, government-funded

subsidized insurance that can work, they can walk, they can talk, they can lift,

they can get jobs at places like Walmart or Target that have insurance options.

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