House Bill 2109 amends the Illinois Insurance Code to require coverage for comprehensive cancer testing and testing of blood or constitutional tissues for cancer predisposition testing. The law was born after pediatric cancer patient Olivia Sergot was put through invasive surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation that would never cure her.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.