Several Illinois hospitals that focus their care on low-income patients
tentatively back an unfolding Medicaid plan by Gov. Pat Quinn, after
previously blasting the governor’s attempts to cut $2.7 billion in yearly Medicaid
spending.
The Illinois Senate voted yesterday to end paying 100 percent of health
insurance premiums for some state retirees that served in Illinois
government for at least 20 years.
Illinois tabled setting up a state health care insurance exchange, a vital part of the national health care reform law, as state lawmakers wait until the U.S. Supreme Court decision, likely this June, on whether the 2010 Affordable Care Act is constitutional.
The Illinois House Executive Committee unanimously passed yesterday a bill to end the state government paying public employee health insurance premiums upon their retirement.
Speaker of the House Mike Madigan (D-Chicago), arguably the most
powerful figure in state politics, gave mixed signals yesterday about
Gov. Pat Quinn's cigarette tax increase of $1 a pack.
Families USA, a health care consumer advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., released a report today contending that Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's proposed $2.7 billion in Medicaid cuts would cost Illinois 25,600 jobs.
Rev. Jesse Jackson will be among what the Mental Health Movement
coalition bills as "dozens of religious leaders" that will speak at 3
p.m. today outside a soon to be closed mental health clinic in Chicago.
Illinois hospitals say that Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposed $2.7 billion in Medicaid savings would devastate their bottom line – and significantly harm the state’s already fragile social safety net.
“We are deeply concerned about what we may have to do to restrict access to care,” says Wayne Learner, president and CEO of Holy Cross hospital on Chicago’s South Side. Read more »
Illinois hospitals say that Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposed $2.7 billion in Medicaid savings would devastate their bottom line – and significantly harm the state’s already fragile social safety net.
