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by Adam Doster
9:44am
Mon Oct 5, 2009

Is Illinois Stiffing Health Care Providers?

State budget

The state's pension debt isn't the only existing outlay driving the
state's finances into the ground. Illinois also faces a huge backlog of
payments to hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, and physicians that
treat patients on public aid. For years, state lawmakers ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
2:16pm
Wed Sep 30, 2009

Kirk's Northbrook Town Hall: Scaring Seniors And Sacrificing Starbucks

Health Care

With health care reform gaining momentum on Capitol Hill, GOP Rep.
and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk took another crack at "slowing
things down" in his North Shore district yesterday morning. During a
town hall event in Northbrook, the Republican Senate hopeful ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
9:59am
Tue Sep 29, 2009

Health Care Round-Up: Young People Demand Reform, Schakowsky Optimistic About Public Option, Public Opinion Swings In September

Congress

Here is the latest news from the health care reform battle -- both in D.C. and here in Illinois. Young People Demand Reform Republicans looking to downplay the health care crisis in America often portray the population of uninsured young people as a collection of ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:28am
Wed Sep 23, 2009

Health Care And The Unemployed

Congress

WTTW's Chicago Tonight devoted a segment on their Monday
program to a crucial topic: the erosion of employer-based health
insurance. The U.S. Census Bureau's latest jobs report reveals that the
percentage of Americans covered through their work dropped in 2008 for the ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
3:05pm
Tue Sep 22, 2009
6 comments

Health Care Reform Comes To Blue Cross' Front Door

Health Care

The private health insurance industry has gone to great lengths -- and spent big bucks -- to put a stranglehold on the health care reform debate. By the nonprofit watchdog Public Campaign Action Fund's count, insurance companies and HMOs have spent nearly $700,000 per day ...

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by Angela Caputo
5:37pm
Mon Sep 21, 2009
1 comment

“Sick” Of Big Insurance Companies?

Health Care

The private health insurance industry is going to great lengths to convince
the American people that they are the underdogs in the health care
reform debate. And some members of Illinois' own congressional
delegation have been shamelessly peddling their message.
Not ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
3:05pm
Mon Sep 21, 2009
4 comments

Schakowsky: Public Option "More Alive" Thanks To Baucus Bill

Congress

Could the insurance industry's approval of Sen. Max Baucus' (D-MT) watered-down health care bill help galvanize support for a public option? Illinois' own Rep. Jan Schakowsky thinks so. Appearing on Fox Chicago Sunday this past weekend, she told host Jack Conaty that the ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
1:16pm
Mon Sep 21, 2009
1 comment

Schock, Health Care, And Young People

Aaron Schock

Aaron Schock, the youngest member of Congress, ostensibly
understands what's important to young people around the country. That's
why FOX News invited the Peoria Republican on the air yesterday to
discuss whether or not voters under the age of 30 support health care
reform...

PI Original
by Progress Illinois
11:17am
Fri Sep 18, 2009
2 comments

Sun-Times Calls Public Option "Essential"

Health Care

The Sun-Times has a solid editorial today on the health care battle in D.C. in which they vocally support the inclusion of a public option in any reform package:

It should be clear why we need radical reform, but in case it isn't, here's a quick rundown.

In ...