U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) met with local small business owners and realtors to discuss breakthrough legislation he authored with support from business and labor groups, designed to make health insurance more available and affordable for the 1.8 million employees of Illinois’ 250,000 small businesses and for half a million people who are self-employed in [...]
All Kids Bridge, a plan by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to expand health coverage of seriously ill or injured young adults ages 19 to 21, still does not exist one year after it was announced, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports. In August 2007, Blagojevich said that he could authorize an expansion of All Kids, a [...]
Final passage of a bill that would give Illinois residents without health insurance a discount on hospital care could be jeopardized because of an amendatory veto by Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), the Chicago Tribune reports. The bill — which would have guaranteed uninsured Illinoisans the “most generous discounts in the U.S.,” capped their annual spending [...]
Case study of illinois all kids program highlights experiences of universal insurance initiative.
%26quot;A Race to the Top: Illinois’ All Kids Initiative,%26quot; Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: The case study, prepared by Urban Institute researchers Teresa Coughlin and Mindy Cohen, describes key features of the Illinois All Kidsprogram, the first universal coverage program for [...]
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on Tuesday announced he will cut $500 million from a budget approved by the General Assembly and use the money to increase spending on several health care programs, the AP/Chicago Tribune reports. Blagojevich said he will cut $200 million in %26quot;pork%26quot; spending and $300 million from unspecified programs.
Blagojevich’s office [...]
Last week Illinois Governor Blagojevich announced his plan to use his executive rule-making authority to bolster state healthcare programs and give 500,000 more Illinoisans access to affordable health coverage and services, including;
Every uninsured woman in Illinois will be eligible to get screened and treated for breast and cervical cancer, greatly improving cancer outcomes and saving [...]
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on Thursday said he would act without legislative approval to expand Illinois’ All Kids program to provide coverage for seriously ill beneficiaries up to age 21, the Chicago Tribune reports. Currently, beneficiaries are eligible for the program up to age 19.
According to Michael McRaith, director of the Illinois [...]
State Children ,, s Health Insurance Program
Continuing his push for reauthorization of the State Children ,, s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today joined governors from across the country in calling on the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to immediately reverse proposed mandates it announced [...]
Uninsured Illinois Women
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Chicago announced a plan to expand the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Breast and Cervical Cancer Program to cover breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment for up to 260,000 additional uninsured women in the state, the Chicago Tribune reports (Garcia [...]
An Illinois legislative rules-making committee on Tuesday voted 9-2 toreject an order issued last week by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D)that would have allowed 147,000 parents and caretakers to purchasediscounted health insurance through the state’s FamilyCare program, the Chicago Tribune reports (Meitrodt/Mendell, Chicago Tribune, 11/13).
The expansion is part of a larger proposalby Blagojevich that was [...]