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Many people enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program will soon be eligible to receive a host of nonmedical services that could improve their overall health, including housing and nutrition assistance, violence prevention services, and services to help them transition out of incarceration.
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Summary and audio linked here.
Yes, illegals are fully encouraged to apply.
Advancing its vision for healthcare equity, the State of Illinois in 2022 committed to providing medical coverage to adults ages 42-64 regardless of their immigration status.
https://hfs.illinois.gov/medicalclients/healthbenefitsforimmigrants/healthbenefitsforimmigrantadults.html#:~:text=Advancing%20its%20vision%20for%20healthcare,regardless%20of%20their%20immigration%20status.
Medicaid is now a general welfare program.
The bureaucrats who greenlighted this should be in irons.
The article has a whole salad bowl of new services including things like first month rent assistance, utility hookups, art therapy, grief and consoling so on and so forth. The real kicker is the line “State officials said they do not have an estimate of how much the new services will cost.” Once again we have a new dream program for the free stuff army with no idea what it will cost. Sometime in the future people will ask how the tax burdens of how this program got started and we get to look at it in its inception. Who… Read more »
I’d be shocked if illegals aren’t eligible.