The Indiana Senate Public Health Committee is advancing a proposal to expand Medicaid using the state's health savings account plan.
The panel voted 9-3 today to request that the federal government allow Indiana to use its Healthy Indiana Plan to cover the roughly 400,000 residents who would qualify under an expansion.
The measure, which has the backing of Gov. Mike Pence, now heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee. A similar proposal has been introduced in the House.
