COMING NOVEMBER 2008?
When I saw this Mitch Daniels campaign ad, I couldn’t help but think of a movie preview. I guess the next question is would a second Daniels term be an Iron Man or Speed Racer?
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Mitch Daniels is the best governor Indiana has had in my lifetime. There have been more improvements across the board. He’s got my vote!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:00 am
I give him a solid C-plus.
The commercial, tho, was a huge departure from the ordinary. And for that alone, thumbs up. Fact-checkers will kepe busy, because most of what he touts is incomplete or only partially true.
But it’s a great commercial.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Abdul, I have to agree with you about the “movie trailer” look of it. I found it quite effective and unlike anything else I have seen in a campaign commercial. The music chosen was the final part which delivers this spot home. I actually look forward to hearing it when I see it hit the air.
May 12th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I have probably seen this ad a dozen times or more on Indianapolis TV. I’m trying to remember which station, but it was one or more of the primary networks (ABC, CBS, NBC). It has probably been on more late night (11 o’clock news) rather than prime time.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I can’t hit the change-channel button fast enough when this comes on. After seeing it just 2-3 times it now makes me want to scream. It’s more irritating than those rub-it-on-your-forehead commercials. I pray it won’t keep running every 5 minutes until next fall.
Funny how he knows my property tax bill has gone down, even though I’m still waiting to get my 3 bills for one year (instead of just two like in previous years). That doesn’t suggest a decrease to ME.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:52 am
That Matrix commercial alone will give his opponent enough material for the entire campaign. He just wallked into a whole heep of trouble.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:55 am
awesome ad
Mitch rules
May 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am
No new taxes! This must be a typo. The 7% sales tax is new is it not? My property taxes are up 27% this year in Marion county. this is more like a trailer for True Lies.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Mike and John, how do you guys go thru life being mental midgets?
May 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
They’re not mental midgets, Sugar.
Our sales tax went up by 1%. mMitch proposed it or agreed with it. The last time we got sold that bill of goods, by Gov. Bowen, the sales tax doubled, and the Ptoperty Tax Replacement Fund was established. Which gave legislators partial cover for almost 40 years.
The rise in property taxes is due almost entirely to local units of government and their spending. But the state set up the matriz for assessors to use. And when the autopsy is done on our property tax fiasco, that’s where the blame will be placed. Rightly.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
2002 Property tax $3,500
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2003 Property tax $7,000+
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2007 Property tax $14,000+
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2008 Property tax $16,900
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Now someone tell me where the relief is? And oh yeah, don’t forget about the 1% sales tax increase. Sounds like we got taken for a ride and took one up you know where on the way.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Think again
You do math the way politicians do. Our sales tax went up by 16.67% to 7%.
May 13th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Things Mitch forget to mention in this ad.
May 13, 2008
Dr. Richard Feldman
Finding remedy for health-care blues
The Commonwealth Fund recently released a report that ranks the states on 32 indicators of health care, including access to care, avoidable hospital use and costs, quality, equity and healthy lives. You guessed it: Indiana fared poorly on yet another national report relating to health, ranking 38th overall among states.
The report shows a huge variation among states. The implication is that state health-care policy and specific ways local and regional health-care systems operate do make a difference.
The study found that there is opportunity for enormous improvement in health-care systems and consequently people’s health, particularly in lower-functioning states. But the country as a whole could do much better.
Not surprisingly, better health-care access is highly associated with better health, and there are great opportunities to decrease costs and increase quality of care. As this and other studies have found, higher quality is not associated with higher costs.
If all states could perform as well as the top states, the study found, we could:
Experience 90,000 fewer deaths before the age of 75 due to treatable conditions each year.
Reduce the uninsured rate by one-half.
Enable 4 million more diabetics and 9 million elderly to receive basic recommended care and avoid preventable complications by improving systems of chronic disease management.
Save billions of dollars annually by reducing preventable hospital admissions and avoidable re-admissions by improving hospital performance, preventing complications of chronic diseases, and better caring for vulnerable nursing home patients.
Save $22 billion to $38 billion per year in Medicare costs by creating higher-performing health-care systems.
Many best-performing states such as Hawaii, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts lead the nation in reforming their health-care systems, expanding access, lowering uninsured rates and creating the best chronic disease management programs. They have the highest rates of preventive-care interventions, and the lowest avoidable mortality rates. These states maximize value by creating both quality and efficiencies. The highest-performing states combine enhanced access with strong primary-care systems to better assure that medical care is patient-centered and coordinated.
Indiana ranked 30th in access, 28th in quality, and 33rd in avoidable hospitalizations, health-system equity, and healthy lives. Indiana scored 39th lowest in the percent of adults who visited a doctor in the past two years, the immunization rate of children 19 to 35 months, and the quality of nursing home care. We rank 42nd in the percent of people older than 50 who receive recommended preventive health assessments and in the rate of colorectal cancer deaths. The infant mortality rate was 15th highest and the percent of home-health patients requiring hospital admission was 12th highest. Indiana scored well on only one indicator, the percentage of patients with a usual source of health care, at 10th highest.
The study’s major conclusion was that it will ultimately take federal intervention in addition to the best of state efforts to bring health-care coverage for all Americans. Only then can we even hope to attain the best quality and cost-effective medical care, absolutely dependent on access to the system.
State initiatives that improve the value obtained from their health care systems could be adapted for use on a national scale. Policymakers should take notice of what is achievable, especially in Indiana, so that people will receive the best health care our country and state can offer.
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May 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Well. My wife and I just got back from the Washington Township assessors office and to our surprise we got an immediate and satisfactory result on an appeal of the value of our house. The genleman who helped us, Raymond Baker, was excellent to work with and understood our concerns and, quite frankly knows things in Meridian-Kesslar are totally screwed up. He’s started a study to determine what went wrong with assessments in our area and how to fix it. He is calling the study “The Couvillion Effect” (named after a neighbor who was one of the first to bring the ‘imbalance’ of our assessments to the assessors attention) and everyone who feels that their assessment is wrong needs to appeal. The more people that appeal will actually help them with their study of the Meridian-Kesslar area and hopefully prevent future screw-ups. So there is some hope for us. At least for now.