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The Health Care Justice Act (HCJA) was a law in Illinois that sought "to insure that all residents have access to quality health care at costs that are affordable". [2] The Health Care Justice Campaign (a project of Campaign for Better Health Care) led public advocacy for the act, which was passed after a two-year fight and took effect on July 1, 2004.
For some conditions, this care is cost-effective and results in health care cost savings that outweigh added transportation costs. [ 100 ] without access to reliable, affordable, and convenient transportation, patients miss appointments and end up costing clinics money.
(The Center Square) – New laws go into effect in Illinois Jan. 1 that will put new restrictions on the state’s health insurance industry. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the Healthcare Protection Act ...
Get Covered Illinois is the health insurance marketplace for the U.S. state of Illinois. The exchange enables people and small businesses to purchase health insurance at federally subsidized rates. Since its inception, over 388,179 Illinois consumers have gained health insurance coverage. [1]
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The focus was on creating local or regional exchanges that offered a series of standardized health care plans that reduced the complexity and cost of acquiring or understanding health care insurance, while simplifying claims administration. The system was modeled after the standardized stock exchange and banking industry back office processes ...
U.S. healthcare costs in 2015 were 16.9% GDP according to the OECD, over 5% GDP higher than the next most expensive OECD country. [2] With U.S. GDP of $19 trillion, healthcare costs were about $3.2 trillion, or about $10,000 per person in a country of 320 million people.
President Obama and his supporters have high hopes for health care reform. One of the most central goals of their plan is the reduction of long-term costs in the system, a much-needed change. But ...