Tuesday, just as advocates argued the changes were too costly for low-income patients, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Service sent out a notice to providers, writing that co-pays would be halted, with cost-sharing from providers to be completed before patients are asked to dole out co-pays or coinsurance. “Providers should not charge cost-sharing for this population until further notice and any cost-sharing that providers may have already collected must be returned to the customer,” wrote Kelly Cunningham, the state’s administrator for Division of Medical Programs.
They want the system to fail for the deplorables who must share healthcare with the illegals. The illegals are just pawns in the war against the deplorables. I repeat this often and loud, because its so very true: they hate you, deplorable. They really, truly hate you. The elites, most of whom vote Democrat, go to fancy hospitals in the nicest parts of the suburbs with few medicaid patients. I visited lake forest hospital a few months back and every car in the parking lot was new and expensive. Same with Glenbrook Hospital. The deplorables can share their Advocate and… Read more »
susan
2 years ago
AT some point when medical professionals’ cost of operations: …(support staff, billing coding, malpractice liability insurance plus projecting tail cost (‘tail’ means paying for years of malpractice insurance after retirement, because statutes of limitations do not run out for many years and even decades in the cases of children), IT compliance with HIPAA)… exceed reasonable net compensation, medical professionals will leave–leave Illinois, leave medical profession or at least patient-encounter medicine. Yes, of course big-box medicine with State-appointed monopolies like NWM may limp along at enormous personal profit for a while, using brand-newly-graduated nurses and residents putting in time before fleeing… Read more »
Pat S.
2 years ago
Another slap in the face of tax-paying citizens.
Will taxpayer abuse never end?
Riverbender
2 years ago
Cost sharing by providers means they will be hiking prices on those who do pay for their medical services. Another back room tax upon the workers to pay for the illegals brought to us by Pritzker who will tout his great medical service plan for the immigrants in his Presidential aspiration speeches.
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.
It seems the government almost wants the healthcare system to fail.
Then what? Government run healthcare for all.
Don’t know about you, but the prospect of JB, JB, and BJ looking after my healthcare makes me ill.
They want the system to fail for the deplorables who must share healthcare with the illegals. The illegals are just pawns in the war against the deplorables. I repeat this often and loud, because its so very true: they hate you, deplorable. They really, truly hate you. The elites, most of whom vote Democrat, go to fancy hospitals in the nicest parts of the suburbs with few medicaid patients. I visited lake forest hospital a few months back and every car in the parking lot was new and expensive. Same with Glenbrook Hospital. The deplorables can share their Advocate and… Read more »
AT some point when medical professionals’ cost of operations: …(support staff, billing coding, malpractice liability insurance plus projecting tail cost (‘tail’ means paying for years of malpractice insurance after retirement, because statutes of limitations do not run out for many years and even decades in the cases of children), IT compliance with HIPAA)… exceed reasonable net compensation, medical professionals will leave–leave Illinois, leave medical profession or at least patient-encounter medicine. Yes, of course big-box medicine with State-appointed monopolies like NWM may limp along at enormous personal profit for a while, using brand-newly-graduated nurses and residents putting in time before fleeing… Read more »
Another slap in the face of tax-paying citizens.
Will taxpayer abuse never end?
Cost sharing by providers means they will be hiking prices on those who do pay for their medical services. Another back room tax upon the workers to pay for the illegals brought to us by Pritzker who will tout his great medical service plan for the immigrants in his Presidential aspiration speeches.