Indiana's Health Care Sector and Insurance Market: Summary Report.

This report summarizes a series of reports investigating Indiana’s health care economy and markets. The findings suggest the need for policymakers in Indiana to address important challenges on multiple fronts. Important areas for immediate attention include greater efficiency in the delivery of hospital care, reducing the spending for hospital care that appears to be crowding out spending for other medical services. However, equally critical is attention to three problems that are more closely related than many policymakers may have appreciated: improving population health status, supporting adequate employer-based coverage among workers in small firms and low-wage jobs, and encouraging the appropriate use of preventive and chronic care.