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Louise Norris, a health policy analyst at healthinsurance.org, noted that 93% of people who buy health insurance through ACA marketplaces receive enhanced subsidies. A sharp increase in their ...
Illinois state and federal lawmakers are looking into a way to lower prescription drug costs, ... the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services paid $2.64 billion to PBMs in 2021 ...
“Harris has been a strong advocate for healthcare reform, including proposals to increase subsidies for health insurance, expand Medicaid and introduce a public option to compete with private ...
One factor perpetuating inefficiencies in health care is a lack of clarity regarding the cost of health insurance and who bears that cost, especially employment-based health insurance. Employers' payments for employment-based health insurance and nearly all payments by employees for that insurance are excluded from individual income and payroll ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the health insurance rate review program in order to protect consumers from unreasonable rate increases. [1] Through this program, proposed premium increases in the small group and individual markets that are above a threshold amount (ten percent or more, as of February 2014) are reviewed by states or the federal government to determine whether the ...
The Campaign for Better Health Care (CBHC) is a coalition of healthcare advocates, labor unions, and nonprofit organizations working to bring a single-payer healthcare system to the United States. Based in Illinois, it was founded by Jim Duffet in 1989.
(The Center Square) – Illinois state Sen. Mike Simmons, D-Chicago, is hoping to see the new Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker expanded to benefit even more than the ...
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]