i asked the question of the commissioner at this point its name escapes me he said hey there's been a number of accidents between came at avenue in torrance that it seems like it's a forgotten land by in d n a and by illinois there's a lot of bad accidents on friday we had another one we had two of them and he said well he wasn't aware of it that he would talk to the secretary in illinois and see what they could do between torrance and calumet avenue or put the question out there directly to the head of indot and let's see if there's any action on there and if you guys notice on the next know that it's considerably better between came out avenue in torrance what we think is happening is it indiana's going up to calumet in illinois coming down to torrance and then that area between the state lines there is kind of getting neglected big you drove there for a lot of years doesn't seem to mean it's the redone the lanes on both sides of the state line there's a tunnel lanes but there's a lot of swales in areas bridges there's little turns and there's that's probably the highest i would say that's one of the highest that is the highest truck traveled stretch of highway between cayman and florence in the nation one guy tells me another guy says it's the second highest it is and there's a lot of trucks that i mean in that area i mean even six i would say sixty five to the state right i mean there's just a lot of trucks for some reason between torrance and calumet just where everybody's you know all this underlying stuff from the middle all the roads are coming together people are going to three ninety four they're going to fifty seven they're going to i mean they all have to go on that stretch and then with this year which different to is you have so much snow there's just nowhere to put it i mean you know everybody you know think about your driveway and you knew sidewalks i mean you know the piles getting so high i mean it's not melting any so it's a real challenge expression in that stretch because you've got the big walls up there so you've got to have you know enough time to be able to not only move it off of the pavement but also to go and start picking it up and that's heavy duty you have to shut it down and be able to get front loaders and start moving it off that way that's a real challenge you know what happens they take down a couple of  any time unless they do it oh dark hundred it's backing up the whole funny yeah and we've had some huge backups and we're trying to see on the air as much as possible throughout the day twelve hours of local radio so i mean we do have some more snow coming on thursday we'll see what happens to our ninety four five eleven hundred let's just take some random phone calls let's go to jim from months or them go to car oh hey jim what's going on i was just going to chime in on the south shore you know based on the argument to get example i mean you could take the line all the way down i mean transitory and development from the public sector economic development people is just the buzz word and i've had quite a few conversations about oh well in el annoyed people want to live next to the train station and i said listen that's great last time i checked this is in illinois and you know you have those in that example right there there's train stations currently in indiana on the south shoreline how come it isn't driver for  housing and for people to live close to those train stations and it's an interesting dynamic i don't know if there's a right or wrong answer but it's it's interesting from the perspective of why you want to live close to the train station in naperville but not in lake northwest indiana when i was doing their corporate site selection stuff down there and and number one the folks in illinois look down on people from indiana you know i don't know how else to couch it that's just the way it is and you know it's the it's the joke that you know indiana is the road to michigan so some of that has to factor in there waiting how do you go about you know attacking that if you're responsible for economic development because i'm an advocate of economic development as one that solves a lot of problems and a lot of different people not a lot of different people's lives because if you could bring new jobs and new money into the area that's going to provide additional revenue that everybody so coveted for our core i'm doing well yeah and what can't you know because you look at all the people who still need health care and they don't have access to it because he's not accepting of funding from what i'm understanding and and what if we have another alternative you have to help these people or they just he's going to say you know that i'm going on but when it came i don't know that's why i'm asking a question i don't know well here's the deal as part of the affordable act each state can exchange can choose to expand medicaid in the beginning the federal government will cover almost all of that but over time the state's going to have to pick up a little bit of the cost of that expanded medicaid and i believe that is why twenty five to thirty five of the states mostly controlled by republican governors have opted out of expanding medicaid ok so what do they do  well i know what the answer is going to be from the state of indiana or they're going to say that you need to try to go into the healthy indiana plan you can't get in today they put you on a waiting list you cannot get into that you're on a waiting list very limited in the services that you can get now you are not alone in the way that you feel here cora because the time to actually address this in a front page article on sunday and they're saying that  four hundred ninety nine hoosiers will die because expect medicare was not expanded and part of it is one of the guys asks is a doctor he says how many poor people without health insurance can get a mammogram you if you don't have health insurance are you going to get a mammogram no and that's a real concern because folks who can't pay for health care could be getting less than desirable health care you know not getting anything against poor but you know it's you know the health care about here in i think you know and i could you know feel the pain for a core i mean and that's got to be tough and you know it has to do with  government in my opinion is the government you know the answer to all of the issues i mean and you know not knowing anybody specific and just speaking in generalities i mean if you smoke all your whole life and you don't exercise and you have a poor die eventually there's going to be some problems if you decide that you know taking care of your body is in your responsibility and you're just going to wait till something breaks and goes down and then says you know the government should help you know that's the flip side of that argument i mean that is the flip side of the argument and quite frankly i mean the whole the whole philosophy there is that if you keep yourself healthy you won't be you won't have to pay money ok so that is money not as much money ok but part of the other side of that argument is that the to keep yourself healthy you need wellness campaigns and you need to be checked on a regular basis and that's not included not for poor fall but those those are programs because at some point somebody has got to make their decisions on a personal level of whether or not they're going to do stuff like that you know and usually it's to the point where are you going to advocate for people who make poor decisions i mean that's just as important to take care of those people isn't it as people that do but there's got to be more than in my opinion than just the government i mean we have a lot of charities we have a lot of faith based organizations one of the challenges that i always look at for something like this is how do they impact on what's going on do they just throw people under the bus and say you need to go over here or do they provide those types of programs ok and charities so which which story is the most important it's not easy i mean there isn't a good answer because which whatever way you go people are going to be upset in terms of the affordable care act and how it works for the states is that you know i was reading one of the articles and i think business week over the there's a lot of problems with obamacare and i think it was quickly put together and pushed through and now we're just going to try to figure out what happened and make the best of it later but one of the good parts of it was they will come with expanding medicaid to give to concentrate on getting people well rather than trying to just deal with all their symptoms because in the end cora gets sick and gets breast cancer and shouldn't have any money we're all going to pay for that sure as we might have been able to see a mammogram and say i will we need to do this maybe remove a little piece of tissue or so thing and then you know it's a much cheaper thing and she lives a much better life sever going to wait you can't get a mammogram because state of indiana doesn't want to be on medicaid and next thing you know she's got breast cancer and we you know it's but it's not and we caught it in time so it's go be four hundred thousand dollars of care and now she's better ok rather than all geez we caught it early i mean there's so many ill logical ways of going about health care right now indiana not being in medicaid is not helping that