This week’s question, asked by Truth correspondent Mark Shephard in Osceola: The Indiana General Assembly is working on a health care compact that would allow Hoosiers to handle many aspects of provision and place control more at the state level. What do you think some of the keys are to keeping people out of the health care system as much as possible?


Jeanette Cummings, sales representative, Granger

“I would say the key elements in keeping people out of the health care system are preventative care — making that available — and education to young parents, because if they’re educating children as to proper appropriate health, then that would prevent them from being in the system.”


Terri Schwartz, seafood management training, Osceola

“There are a lot of companies that don’t offer insurance. And these people that are struggling, a lot of them don’t want to go to the hospital because they don’t have any insurance and they end up dying. I have friends that don’t have insurance and I’ve lost friends that didn’t have insurance and they couldn’t go to the hospital.”


Phil Brown, Osceola police chief, Elkhart

“Employers employing employees full-time should be forced by state or federal law to provide health care insurance for that employee.” Follow-up: Do you think there should be any wellness prerequisites for employees before employers offer health insurance? “No, I do not.”


Kyle Richard, Penn High School senior, Osceola

“Just start from a young age and get a good living, and then work your way up and earn a lot of money so you don’t have to enter that early in your career, so the older you are when you get in there, the better it helps the state and the country.” Follow-up: What kind of health education have you had at Penn. Are they teaching you about diet and smoking and things like that? “Yeah, they teach us that. They have a health class we have to take — I think it’s sophomore year — and it’s about all that, but other than that we don’t really hear that much about it: I mean if you play a sport, you’ll hear a lot about it, but unless you take more health classes, you won’t hear a lot about it.”


Craig Hartley, auto mechanic, Osceola

“If the world more or less focused more on fitness and taking care of health and well being. Health and well being is just a cloud to a lot of people. It just floats around. Every once and awhile it passes by, and someone says ‘oh hey,’ let’s focus on health, or whatever the case may be. There are not state recreational places that you can go and exercise for people that don’t have the money to go out and workout and all they do is eat. Granted that you can walk, but if the state wants to keep people out of health care they need to give them incentives that allow people to take care of themselves.”

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