Lilly CEO

[Marvin the Martian]

WISH-TV 8 just had a story about the CEO of Lilly (Ricks) talking about Indiana. He complains that Indiana is not keeping up with education, it is hard to recruit to Indiana, and healthcare in Indiana is too expensive. It does not appear that WISH has put this online yet, and the only other source I see appears to be IBJ but I do not have a membership to confirm

Lilly CEO: Indiana must improve education, reduce health care costs to stay competitive - Indianapolis Business Journal

When it comes to competing for jobs, Indiana is far behind the curve in critical ways, Eli Lilly and Co. CEO David Ricks told a lunch crowd Wednesday at the Economic Club of Indiana.

www.ibj.com

On healthcare, here is a story that Indiana has the 6th highest healthcare in the country.

WHAT DID YOU PAY?: Study finds Indiana has some of the highest health care costs

KOKOMO — What hospitals are going to charge you for a visit or surgical procedure is often anyone’s guess, but Hoosiers in particular pay some of the highest health care

www.kokomotribune.com

I hope the interview with Ricks comes up soon as I am curious about his education specifics. Indiana claims to have lower costs justifying lower wages, but 5th highest healthcare does not seem to support that entirely.

 

[hookyIU1990]

We're one of the fattest, highest smoking rate states IIRC.

 

[Marvin the Martian]

We're one of the fattest, highest smoking rate states IIRC.

True, but so is Tennessee. This cities a different study but shows Tennessee to be below the US average. I find other sites saying that as well.

Indiana is 5 in obesity but the states ahead of us are not all the same as those more expensive.

Adult - State of Childhood Obesity

According to the most recent Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data, adult obesity rates now exceed 35% in 17 states.

stateofchildhoodobesity.org

 

[hookyIU1990]

Perhaps it's related to our insurance regulatory regime and having the Wellpoint HQ in the state?

Moneyed interests and all that.

 

[twenty02]

WISH-TV 8 just had a story about the CEO of Lilly (Ricks) talking about Indiana. He complains that Indiana is not keeping up with education, it is hard to recruit to Indiana, and healthcare in Indiana is too expensive. It does not appear that WISH has put this online yet, and the only other source I see appears to be IBJ but I do not have a membership to confirm

Lilly CEO: Indiana must improve education, reduce health care costs to stay competitive - Indianapolis Business Journal

When it comes to competing for jobs, Indiana is far behind the curve in critical ways, Eli Lilly and Co. CEO David Ricks told a lunch crowd Wednesday at the Economic Club of Indiana.

www.ibj.com

On healthcare, here is a story that Indiana has the 6th highest healthcare in the country.

WHAT DID YOU PAY?: Study finds Indiana has some of the highest health care costs

KOKOMO — What hospitals are going to charge you for a visit or surgical procedure is often anyone’s guess, but Hoosiers in particular pay some of the highest health care

www.kokomotribune.com

I hope the interview with Ricks comes up soon as I am curious about his education specifics. Indiana claims to have lower costs justifying lower wages, but 5th highest healthcare does not seem to support that entirely.

One area Indiana is not thriving, he said, is education—both in the performance in test scores of students and the educational attainment of the workforce. Only 37% of Indiana’s elementary and middle school students tested proficient in math in the 2019 statewide proficiency tests, even before the COVID-19 pandemic helped pushed scores even lower.

“That’s a very difficult statistic to look at,” Ricks said. “If you look at what our economic is based on … it’s projected that about 30% of the current (traditional) jobs will be lost in the next decade, replaced by math- and science-heavy positions.”

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