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Fewer Hoosiers will be without health insurance when the Healthy Indiana Plan shortens its wait list in upcoming weeks.  Martin Dauenhauer hopes to be one of the lucky few who move from the list to becoming an enrolled HIP client.

After losing his welding job earlier this year, Dauenhauer applied for the state’s medical insurance plan, but discovered that he and 25,000 other Hoosiers would have to wait.

“I was hoping I could get on HIP right away, but (the enrollment specialist) told me about this wait list,” Dauenhauer said. “I’d like to go to a doctor when I have a choice … but I try to stay calm about it. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

Started on Jan. 1, 2008, HIP was intended to give families living at 200 percent of the poverty level or below a chance to have medical insurance.

The federal government, which along with the state, provides funds for HIP, imposed a 34,000-person limit for childless adults enrolled in the program.

Fourteen months later the program had reached the cap, with 25,000 now on the waiting list.

Staff at the Family and Social Services Administration couldn’t confirm a date for moving applicants from the wait list to the program, but did say it would be “before 2010.”

In an e-mail from HIP manager Darren Klinger to HIP compliance officers and contractors, he reports the slots will become available to 4,000 childless adults in November.

Adults with dependent children or caregivers continue to be placed in the program without a wait list, but childless adults have had a different experience with thousands waiting months before enrolling in the program.

“This shows that this childless population is in need,” said Lucinda Nicklay, an enrollment specialist at Open Door/BMH. “The highest percentage of applicants we see are non-caregivers so (the state) had to open up more slots to accommodate those individuals … (the state) is realizing there is a high demand.”

Many applicants like Dauenhauer have lost their insurance due to a job loss, but FSSA also reports that many employees have lost their insurance when their employers dropped their coverage.

Between 1999 and 2004, FSSA reports that Indiana was second in the nation with the highest decline of employees receiving employer-sponsored insurance.

They also note that on any day, more than 560,000 Indiana residents don’t have health insurance.

Open Door/BMH enrolls many of the local HIP applicants through their enrollment specialists. They encourage anyone who qualifies for HIP to apply regardless of the length of the wait list.

But they also believe the demand demonstrates to everyone the need for alternative health insurance programs.

“This just shows how we need health reform. Indiana has tried that already with the HIP program, a public option that’s available,” said Lori Mathis from Open Door/BMH. “It hasn’t negatively hurt the insurance system. It’s just helped to get coverage for those who absolutely need it.”

I am gonna be taking welding classes soon and I want to get a head start on the math. What should I know?
Wow all great so far thanks. keep it coming!

If there are metal materials in need of being melted or fused together to create a product or structure, it would take a welder with skills in welding to get that job done. They are workers in the manufacturing business who use heat to join metal pieces together to become one. It would take a Welding professional to join beams at their seams in order for those parts to eventually become a building or structure.

The welder is accustomed to wearing eye goggles and welding equipment to perform their job. There are other pieces of protective equipment most welders would wear such as:

1.    Leather gloves,
2.    Long sleeve jackets, and
3.    They must wear safety shoes too.

This equipment aids them in protecting their bodies while they perform their work. Their work environment is considered to be hazardous and they must work carefully. As a welder, you might even experience working in the midst of a welding curtain, used to protect anyone not wearing goggles or onlookers.

Their equipment, for example the goggles are used to protect their eyes from the UV rays caused by the open flame and the metal it burns. This flame can burn the retinas and damage the corneas of any welder not careful enough to follow all safety procedures.

Safety is of the highest concern and it takes a trained professional to know the seriousness of that fact and adhere to them. Which is why welders with formal training are sought out because they have some form of training on what it takes to do be a welder.

If you are looking for formal training to on how become a welder, you might find that there are classes near you in one or more of the following institutions:

•    high schools,
•    community colleges,
•    vocational institutes,
•    the U.S. Armed forces.

If you have taken a course in Welding, you might want to get certified in some skills more specific to advance your career. You might want to check with The American Welding Society to get one or more certificates to specialize in. There are some Welders that are able to be promoted within the ranks of the company they work for due to strengthening their skills and after obtaining vast experience.

In the manufacturing industry there is growth for welders. There is a need for those trained as a Welder, there are employers seeking their unique skills. Welders can look for work in such fields as: the utilities, construction, or manufacturing industries. There will most times be a demand for someone knowledgeable of the welding process or someone who is able to inspect for quality.

If Welding is a field that you are interested in and want to check on the overall job outlook for the future, it is one that is positive. The Welder profession cannot be totally replaced by automation, although there are some jobs that have been shifted because of the use of mechanical automation equipment.