Greetings from Indiana. We've got a place on WeCanDoBetter.org to discuss health reform from Indiana's perspective, post comments or documents and plan events. Disclaimer: This is an Indiana, not Oregon, web site. Accordingly, the orientation reflects the unique political culture and values of Indiana, as well as the spirit of bipartisanship and non-ideological pargmatism of the initiating sponsors--the seven hospital South Central Indiana Regional Healthcare Consortium and the 20-member ad hoc Grassroots Coalition for Affordable Healthcare.

The Coalition's mission is to enable Indiana communities to articulate and advocate for a transformed, high performing local, state and national healthcare system based on the values and priorities we share as Hoosiers.

Our goals are to initiate a non-ideological, broadly based, collaborative state-wide dialogue leading to solutions-oriented action plans for healthcare transformation... making sense out of our healthcare mess, breaking down barriers to change, mobilizing citizens for reform, articulating reform opportunities, catalyzing tangible action for change, and creating an ongoing mechanism for communication and grassroots advocacy among citizen, employer, healthcare professional, faith, and civic leader groups.

Our core values are to give citizens, consumers, buyers, and community leaders a voice that will:

• Provide a grassroots counterweight to the unchallenged dominance of corporate and special interest lobbyists and advocates.
• Assure that individual and community health and economic security interests trump private healthcare sector profitability and revenue growth interests, and also trump ideologically-based or self-serving solutions.

Our vision calls for a transformed Hoosier health system that:

• Fosters personal and community responsibility for health.
• Preserves and strengthens the patient-caregiver relationship.
• Guarantees affordable, quality healthcare without regard to income, employment health status, or age and addresses racial disparities.
• Limits healthcare cost inflation to a sustainable level.

Click here to view the 11 minute WFYI produced video: Out-of-Control, Obsolete, & Out-of-Sync: A Call for Dialogue to Address Indiana's Health System

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The leader of this chapter is Les Zwirn - lzwirn@earthlink.net.