Gerald Williams was one of thousands of Hoosiers placed on a waitlist for services. This isnt the first time Indiana has implemented a waitlist for these services. In fact, advocates warn this could be the return to a decades-long wait for services and that wait is already having a human cost.

State Sen. Ryan Mishler, vice-chairperson of the Medicaid Oversight Committee and chair of the Indiana Senate Appropriations Committee, proposed Senate Bill 2 on Jan. 14, which would cap enrollment in HIP at 500,000, with all remaining users put on a waitlist.

Critics say Gov. Mike Braun’s steps to get a handle on Indiana’s ballooning Medicaid budget limits information for potential clients while increasing regulation on current enrollees. Medicaid is publicly-funded health insurance for people with low incomes.

"We will further constrain Medicaid eligibility across all the different categories of eligibility," said Mitch Roob, Indiana FSSA secretary.

The governor signed nine executive orders on Wednesday he said are aimed at improving the state’s healthcare system.

The bill’s author said many of these changes have been discussed for years, but this year they were “investigated and embraced” as a part of a larger Healthy Indiana Plan, or HIP, redesign.

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When Emily Munson started working for Indiana Disability Rights in 2015, 40 employers in the state were permitted to pay employees with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage. That number has since been cut to 17.

Indiana Family and Social Services Administration instructs MCEs to halt all radio and TV advertising of Indiana Medicaid programs.

Around the time Gerald Williams was first placed on the waitlist, in February, then-Indiana Medicaid Director Cora Steinmetz spoke about the cost-cutting strategies for the first time publicly.

However, the future of the Medicaid waiver waitlist doesn’t just involve the agency — it may come down to what state lawmakers choose to do this legislative session. How did Indiana get here?