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Hoosiers for Commonsense Health Plan
Website: http://www.hchp.info/
E-mail: Hoosiers@hchp.info

Media Contacts

Aaron E. Carroll, MD
317-278-0552
aaecarro@iupui.edu

Dr. Carroll is currently an assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Children’s Health Services Research Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998, and then he completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He stayed at the University of Washington to complete a health services research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. During that time he received his masters degree in Health Services and a certificate in Public Health Informatics. Dr. Carroll’s current research interests include the use of technology in health care, decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis, and health policy and professionalism.


Rob Stone, MD
812.333.8085

Dr. Stone is the Director and Co-Founder of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan (HCHP) and the State Coordinator of Indiana for Physicians for a National Health Program. Dr. Stone has been an emergency department physician at Bloomington Hospital since 1983, and was the Medical Director of the Community Health Access Program Clinic in Bloomington from 2005 to 2007 until it transformed into the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic. He continues to volunteer at the new clinic. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, he graduated from Dartmouth College Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of Colorado Medical School. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.


Jonathan D. Walker, MD
260 436 2181
Jonwalker22@gmail.com

Dr. Walker attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati, and did his residency at Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA and Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati, OH. He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at Ohio State University.

He is active in clinical practice in the above two specialties; also clinical professor at local medical school, and active with local free clinic projects using telemedicine to identify patients with diabetic retinopathy before severe damage develops. Dr Walker is also involved with projects in developing countries including Nicaragua, Honduras, and Fiji.


Chris Stack, MD | 812.333.8085 | cstack@aol.com
Dr. Stack is on the Steering Committee of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan. Dr. Stack graduated from Stanford University and went on to receive an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1979. He attended Indiana University Medical School where he specialized in orthopedics. Dr. Stack served in the Vietnam War from 1964-67, and is a decorated Navy Veteran. He retired from practice in 2004.

State Organizations Endorsing HR676

  • Bloomington, IN
  • Indianapolis City-Marion County Council

Local Unions Endorsing HR676

  • Northwest Indiana Federation of Labor
  • United Steelworers Local 6787, Burns Harbor, IN
  • Jobs with Justice, St. Joe Valley Project, South Bend, IN
  • UAW Southern Indiana CAP Council
  • AFSCME District Council 62, Indiana and Kentucky
  • Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees (SOAR) Chapter 30-18, Plymouth, Indiana
  • United Steelworkers, USW District 7, Sub-District 4, Northern Indiana
  • United Steelworkers, USW Local 12775, Portage, Indiana
  • Local Union 136, Plumbers & Steamfitters, United Association, Evansville, IN
  • Wabash Valley Central Labor Council
  • White River Central Labor Council, Bloomington, IN

Indiana State News


Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010

By Robert Stone | Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
A single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all reform would lower costs, cover the uninsured and upgrade coverage for most Americans. It would prove sustainable and hugely popular. Under Medicare, patients have the freedom to choose their doctor and hospital and are free from the fear of financial catastrophe.