Indiana seeks to continue Medicaid expansion program

Gov. Eric Holcomb has requested the renewal of a federal waiver that allows Indiana’s Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 to serve hundreds of thousands of low-income Hoosiers. The request begins an eight-month process with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that is expected to go smoothly under President Donald Trump’s administration.

A look at Indiana Gov.-elect Eric Holcomb

CAREER: State chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, 2013-15; Indiana Republican Party chairman, 2011-13; various positions with Gov. Mitch Daniels, including deputy chief of staff and 2008 campaign manager, 2003-11; aide to U.S. Rep. John Hostettler. CAMPAIGNS: Won 2016 race for governor; announced in March 2015 bid for 2016 U.S. Senate nomination, but dropped out when appointed lieutenant governor; lost 2000 campaign for state representative seat from Vincennes area.

Holcomb finishes ascension from unknown to Indiana governor

In this Nov. 14, 2016 file photo Vice President-elect Mike Pence, right, shakes hands with Indiana Governor-elect Eric Holcomb, as they participate in a cabinet meeting in the governor’s Statehouse office in Indianapolis. Holcomb’s inauguration as Indiana governor on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, will complete a whirlwind ascension in the past year from a virtually unknown candidate to the state’s top office.